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The Piano Quilt [Anne's Crafts] The piano quilt is a very ambitious project. It's taken forever so far. It's huge. This one is so big, that when it's finished, it might be able to be used as a real quilt on a single bed. It's so big that it couldn't be mounted on a chair downstairs near the TV. It moved up to the loft. The basic design is a grand piano. The cloth used for the black piano has black background. The white keys are an ivory cloth, but I don't know she's going to do the black keys yet. Anne bought a series of aluminium shallow pans to contain the cloth, so she could sort the squares by colour and form something a painter's palette. We soon found that the squares could not be constrained. Squares of cloth want to be free. They started spreading all over the floor. This shows the full design of the piano quilt. You can see some of the background material near the top, a small test to get the colour right. And you can see the horizontal bar of ivory cloth near the bottom which will form the white keys. The quilt has started to expand. Anne found that the backing sheet wasn't big enough and she had to expand to the left. So she sliced a few strips and attached them to the board. The quilt is slowly being filled in. It's a big job and Anne has had to stop several times when she ran out of material and had to go hunt some down. eBay is a good source of squares. It's getting close. Only a handful of squares to be filled in now. It looks easy, but Anne has already pulled large chunks down and rebuilt them several times. Something about the colours not matching.