Sunday, May 1, 2016

Easy As (Summer) cot quilt


Using some of my 'textile preservation collection', I grabbed these Kate Spain charm squares and some yardage that I also had in the stash to create a pattern from 'Me and My Sister Designs' book ('Simple Quilts - Easy As 1, 2, 3', publisher That Patchwork Place/Martingale, authors Barbara Groves and Mary Jacobsen).

I used the pattern 'Easy as 10' (which, coincidentally, was also made in the same Kate Spain for Moda 'Terrain' fabrics!).  I had two charm packs so split the fabrics into a pinks/oranges/greens pile and a blues/purples pile - the second quilt top is waiting for me to quilt it up.


The backing fabric was in my stash and had exactly the right mix of colours for this quilt! And the binding was a nice bright teal solid, with the quilt finishing at 37" x 47".



I really liked the way that the pattern quilt was quilted, so followed the same design as used in the book, of a circle around each square and a flower inside each square - good free motion quilting practice!




For the wide strips I did a kind of 'hour-glass' loopy design to keep some curves without having too much going on over top of such a busy print background.




And I am sure I had snuck outside while the cat was inside but he takes his 'quilt inspector' role very seriously and managed to find me out there...







8 comments:

  1. Cute furry friend photo's! A lovely fresh quilt.

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  2. Your quilting is beautiful, those circles are so even looking! And I love your little quilt inspector. I have one too who wants to inspect my pin cushion more than my quilts lately. Lol. This is a lovely finish, great job!

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    1. I have to confess I used a template to draw the circles! Thanks for the comments, so nice to hear from other quilters.

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  3. Neat! I especially like your choice of backing.

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    1. Cheers Vera, it was from out of my stash so I am pleased to be resembling some appearence of'stash-busting'!

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  4. Another beauty, love Kate Spain, and this is a great pattern for the charm packs, it's wonderful! Your FMQ looks really good, nice work!

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    1. Thanks Judy, I am going with something different for the quilting of the purple version, so watch this space! Have a good weekend.

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