Misty Mountains Quilt

My shades-of-dusty-blue Misty Mountains quilt is a variation of  the Thousand Pyramids design. You might have guessed that we had been reading J.R.R. Tolkien’s stories.

The quilt is hand-pieced and hand-quilted by my quilting group (the Great Iowa Quilt Factory) in 1983. Elongated hearts are quilted in the lighter triangles. The backing is a printed fabric rather than plain.

Using some of the same fabrics, I made a miniature Schoolhouse quilt for a doll bed, and an even smaller Nine Patch with a Prairie Points border for fun. Well, it was fun back then!

The Misty Mountains quilt won a Blue Ribbon at the Iowa State Fair for a group quilt, was shown in the 1985 Invitational Quilt Show at the Des Moines Civic Center in conjunction with The Quilters musical.

In 1993, it was part of Quilt Extravaganza IV at Hoyt Sherman Place, which is on the National Register of Historic Places, in Des Moines.