While the Mad Tea Party is gathering momentum in the background, I'd like to share another quilt that was recently completed, but hasn't made an appearance on the blog yet.
I made it for my nephew's seventh birthday and it features a layer cake of the Lake Life collection by Anne Rowan for Wilmington Prints. It has fun boat- and fishing-themed prints, which I didn't want to cut much, so I went for very simple HST blocks, then cut about half of them horizontally and vertically to get smaller HST and solid blocks. I mixed up the blocks and arranged them around the centre to form a sort of "lake".
As I only had 42 squares to play with, the layout is 6 by 7 blocks and the quilt was not that big, so I added a border in grey Moda Marbles to bring it more or less to single bed size.
The quilting is a simple walking foot spiral, quite hard at the beginning, but easy-peasy near the edges. I like the effect of circles in the water that it creates (don't look too close, though).
A fun fact about it all is that the previous quilt I made for my nephew was my first ever finished quilt - it was his first birthday and I was still doing my basic patchwork course, but we had just covered HSTs... So, that baby quilt was also made with HSTs and also featured boats! Here's an old photo:
I also had very few cotton fabrics to play with at the time, one of them was actually my grandmother's curtain, no longer in use, but folded away carefully (for a rainy day, presumably).
Linking up to:
Off the Wall Friday at Creations by Nina-Marie
Can I Get A Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
I made it for my nephew's seventh birthday and it features a layer cake of the Lake Life collection by Anne Rowan for Wilmington Prints. It has fun boat- and fishing-themed prints, which I didn't want to cut much, so I went for very simple HST blocks, then cut about half of them horizontally and vertically to get smaller HST and solid blocks. I mixed up the blocks and arranged them around the centre to form a sort of "lake".
As I only had 42 squares to play with, the layout is 6 by 7 blocks and the quilt was not that big, so I added a border in grey Moda Marbles to bring it more or less to single bed size.
The quilting is a simple walking foot spiral, quite hard at the beginning, but easy-peasy near the edges. I like the effect of circles in the water that it creates (don't look too close, though).
A fun fact about it all is that the previous quilt I made for my nephew was my first ever finished quilt - it was his first birthday and I was still doing my basic patchwork course, but we had just covered HSTs... So, that baby quilt was also made with HSTs and also featured boats! Here's an old photo:
I also had very few cotton fabrics to play with at the time, one of them was actually my grandmother's curtain, no longer in use, but folded away carefully (for a rainy day, presumably).
Linking up to:
Off the Wall Friday at Creations by Nina-Marie
Can I Get A Whoop Whoop? at Confessions of a Fabric Addict
Lovely quilt and I really like the movement that the quilting gives it.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! Really says Summer at the Lake. I do a lot with simple blocks to show the prints.
ReplyDeleteWhat a perfect quilt for a little boy and that circular quilting is the perfect finishing touch.
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