Our guest designer today does not really need an introduction, but here it is anyway! She is the powerhouse behind LakeHouse Dry Goods, she keeps a little blog you may check religiously (HOLLYBLOG!), and we are fortunate enough to be on her list of "Blogs I Love" (find it on our sidebar). She is Holly Holderman, and she has designed a beautiful baby quilt in honor of our own little Emma, although the soft spring shades will fit any little girl.
I first heard about "Miss Emma" from my friend Brenda Riddle...It was all in one breath, and it went something like this: "Kimberly Jolly had a baby, she named her Emma, and she's the cutest pink-cheeked little baby you've ever seen...and Anne and I are going to visit her this summer in Texas."
I imagined my room for "Baby Girl Jolly" like this: the softest petal pink walls, soft white cove moldings & window trim, a poufy white on white roman shade, cotton hooked rugs on the floors, soft white crib, a liberal use of petal pink mini-prints (especially gingham), some soft celery & moss greens and few touches of yellow...and a quilt to complete the look. In the spirit of “anything worth doing is worth doing to excess” I even imagined a little ”E M M A” banner made out of the letters from our Little Girl’s Alphabet fabric to coordinate.
Knowing how much Kimberly, Brenda and I all love pastels, it was just good fortune that I happened to be in the middle of styling the new Cherry Baby line for our Fall 2007 intro. Cherry Baby was designed to go with many of the fabrics from the La Belle Rose line that we'd introduced the season before.
The funny thing is that I imagined Emma as a blond and pink cheeked baby, (a miniature Kimberly). What a surprise it was to see her picture many months later at Fall Quilt market and realize that she got her daddy's red hair... Thank goodness pink and green are just as adorable for redheads!Labels: Guest Quilting Writers