migration music quilt

so yeah, it has been like a thousand years since i posted a finished quilt on here.
well since april, which feels like yesterday and so long ago all at the same time...
today is the day that starts to change!
my summer was a little crazy.  i went from having 2 projects to 6 all with a specific deadline for each one, which meant less time blogging and more time sewing.  but i procrastinated... but this was actually the first quilt done, which means 5 more are coming soon!  (well one needs binding still... but that is beside the point)
i've done music quilts for the past 5ish years or so (i know i counted them at one point) but since my mom wasn't working for the camp anymore, and was a financial donor to the projects, they just weren't going to happen on my "i have to pay rent now" budget.  BUT, over the past 5ish years or so, there has been one person yearning to win a quilt, yet failing each time, all while making us delicious baked goods.  so this quilt was specifically made for her, complete with a "golden ticket" so that she knew not to allow anyone else to swipe it from her hands.
i found the pattern at a quilt shop that was going out of business (the owners were retiring) and thought it would make a great pattern for this quilt!  in the original pattern, the flying geese are made from HST, but i didn't want a seam running through the middle of each block.  i made each one a rectangle, with the background fabric being black on black treble clefs, as seen in many music quilts gone by.
since previous music quilts have attempted to steer clear of any "school color" involvement (the camp hosted many students from many different schools) i had acquired a lot of music fabric that was set to the side since it didn't quite fit the black/white/gold/silver schemes that happened before.
that said... i LOVE the pops of color in this one!  the red just adds that much more visual interest to the quilt to take it from simple flying geese to a little more excitement.  the piano keys even have stripes of red, as does some of the text on a few gray prints.  well... enough words for now.  on to more photos!
i quilted this using the long arm rental program at meissner's this summer, and used the same loopy motif that i used on one of last year's quilts.  it just worked so well, echoing the idea of a treble clef throughout the quilt.  it was a rough thread breaking sort of day that day, but i got through it!
will it be weird not making music quilts each summer?
sure, as it often takes adjusting when change happens...  buuuuut i'd be lying if i said i didn't already make one from start to almost finish with the scraps from this quilt.  more on that another day!  this quilt was well received by it's "golden ticket" winner, which is one reason why i love to quilt randomly like this... the reactions are the best!
quilt pattern: migration by running doe quilts
total quilt count: 111