If you would like to make a quilt like this, check out the Sparkle Punch Quilt-Along, here.
Ta da! Here's the Sparkle Punch quilt, all finished.
I'm really happy with the wintry color scheme. I'm not usually a big purple fan, but I love it here.
I also got to use 3 of my favorite things: Echino, Essex cotton/linen, and faux bois!
Read about the construction of this quilt here.
Here's Jill's finished quilt. Unfortunately, this is another nighttime photo shoot, so these were taken on the floor at PNCA during our PMQG meeting. If you follow the PMQG link and scroll down, you can see a photo of Jill with the quilt and me holding the awesome bag she made me. (As an aside, I should never wear flats. I look 4 feet tall in that photo!)
Here's a closer shot of the quilt.
And a little closer, so you can see the fussy cutting.
And, finally, here's the back.
This post is about my Sparkle Punch quilt. Read the previous posts here and here.
Literally. These photos were taken in Mo's house. Thankfully, she liked the quilt and it seemed to match her vintage Christmas decorations really well.
I wish I'd had better light for these photos. It gets dark so early at this time of year that, by the time I finished the binding, it was already dark!
Here's the quilt spread out on the floor. It measures about 60" x 72".
I quilted in a pointy meandering pattern that shows up a little better on the quilt back.
The quilt back is pieced from 4 rectangular panels of 4 different solid fabrics. Each rectangle includes a single star pieced from a gray print fabric.
The binding is a silvery Quilter's Lame that I bought at Bolt a couple of years ago. (I don't think Bolt still has it but, if you do a web search, you'll find shops that do.)
I'm made a new version of my Block Party quilt. Check out my earlier posts here, here. and here.
I'm so happy with the finished quilt!
I bound the quilt in Kona Curry.
The back is pretty plain for me, but I like that it's nice and calm.
After the last post, some of you asked about my basting method. I think the photos may have been misleading because I was trying to show the part that had already been quilted (so the basting pins had already been taken out). I always pin baste and I think it makes for easier quilting. I also like the fact that, unlike an aerosol can that gets thrown away, pins can be used again and again and don't produce any chemical fumes.
I just finished quilting and binding our February quilt for the do.Good Stitches Charity Bee.
The nine quilters in my circle each made two blocks using my Mod Mosaic technique.
One block from each of the quilters is featured on the front (Kona Ash background) and the other on the back. You can read more about the process of making the quilt top and back here.
Here's a shot of the back with a Kona Turquoise background.
I free-motion quilted in a jaggedy, angular pattern -- kind of like random lightning strikes. I thought the mosaic blocks had a shattered look to them, so I wanted something similar for the quilting.
You can see the quilting a little better in this photo.
This quilt is now boxed and on its way to Wrap Them in Love. Thank you to everyone who contributed blocks. I think our quilt turned out beautifully!
My Tokyo Subway Map quilt is finished! There really wasn't enough light today to photograph it well, but I just couldn't wait to show it off.
Here's the back.
Here's some more detail.
And here it is on my quilt rack (aka IKEA towel stand).
Just because I've finished my quilt doesn't mean that it's too late to start the quilt along. All the how-to posts are right here.
Thank you so much to Ayumi for her help translating the letters for the back, and thank you to everyone who has been playing along in the Flickr Pool.
And a HUGE thank you to Hiromi, who suggested making a quilt inspired by the Tokyo Subway Map in the first place!
Last time I asked, I got so many wonderful suggestions, so I think I'm going to ask again. What would YOU like to see for the next quilt-along? Are you inspired by a particular idea or theme? Do you love a certain color scheme? Are you dreaming of working with a certain shape? I'll be putting together another original quilt-along pattern shortly and would love to hear from you.
Here's a picture of one of the quilts I made for Birch Fabrics' booth at Fall Market. It's the Kitchen Window pattern from my book and features Marine, which will be available in January 2011.
Besides the Marine prints, I used Kona White for sashing and Kona Glacier for the frames. The windows also include Kona School Bus and Orange and Blue Quilter's Linen.
Here's a shot of the blocks for the Marine quilt (not in their final order) on my design wall.
This is a quilt I made feauring the Circa 60 collection, also upcoming from Birch in January 2011. The frames on this quilt are pieced similarly to the quilt back blocks in my Picture Day pattern. The background fabric is Kona Stone.
You can check here to see what shops will be carrying Marine and Circa 60.
Unfortunately, I wasn't able to take pictures of the finished quilts before they left my house, but here's a detail shot of the Circa 60 quilt top. The Circa 60 prints feature fun images like tents, campers, and ukeleles that look like they might have come from a 1960's beach vacation.
Since I'm talking about quilts made with Birch Fabrics, I also want to mention that the 2010 International Quilt Festival Quilt Scene magazine includes a pattern for the patchwork tree quilt that I made for Spring Market. I feel like we've been going a little nuts with the giveaways during the past week, but I do have an extra copy and would love to send it to a randomly-selected commenter on this post. To enter, comment on this post before midnight Wednesday.
Psst. . . Quilt Scene also includes patterns from Alissa Haight Carlton, Ashley Newcomb, Malka Dubrawsky, Cindy Wiens, and Denyse Schmidt.
I finished the flannel and corduroy quilt that I've been making with the Snapshots pattern from my book! Most of the flannel is from the lovely Forest Friends collection from Cloud9.
The binding is chocolate corduroy.
Here's the quilt back.
I quilted this one in a free-motion pattern of climbing vines.
The grid created by the pieced squares was very helpful for this style of quilting. I quilted one "vine" from the bottom to the top of each column of squares.
I find that, with FMQ, it's much easier to pull the quilt toward me, piling it up on my chest and shoulders as I work.
Here's the finished quilt all folded up. I'm so happy with the way this turned out!
I've been playing around with this technique for a while and decided to write it up as a simple pillow project. The fabric scraps on this pillow front are improvisationally-pieced with narrow solid sashing between each -- sort of like little bits of mosaic tile surrounded by grout.
The tutorial is for a 24" x 24" floor pillow, but the piecing technique could easily be used to make a pillow of a different size, or even a whole quilt.
Download Mod Mosaic Floor Pillow
My pillow is finished with a very simple envelope-style closure. I finished the edges of the envelope flaps with double-fold binding for a polished look. The pillow back is made with Quilter's Linen in Leaf.
For the fabrics on the front of the pillow, I put together this set of 12 fat quarters in citrus colors and gray. (I especially love that Alexander Henry Thea!) 12 fat quarter is enough to make several pillows, or even a small quilt using the same improvisational mosaic piecing technique.
Fabricworm is offering one of these fat quarter sets to a lucky commenter. Use it to make your very own Mos Mosaic, or possibly for a Mixtape, Picture Day, or Rec Center quilt. To enter, simply leave a comment before noon tomorrow telling me what kind of projects you're looking forward to sewing this Fall.
I can't get enough of these colors!
I finally finished the Clementine Mini Quilt.
I'm pretty happy with the way it looks now that it's finished.
I ended up free-motion quilting over the entire quilt.
The back is a print from a P&B collection called Nellie's Garden that I got at Fabric Depot (in Portland).
I finished the quilt with an electric blue binding. Yay for another finished project!
