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Emerald Cut - A Finished Quilt

1/6/2014

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Officially finished, here she is, Emerald Cut.  What started as part of the 2013 Pantone Quilt Challenge hosted by a.squared.w, almost nine months later is a finished quilt.  Originally I had no intention of entering the challenge, and then one day while daydreaming an idea hit that I just had to pursue.  An emerald quilt block made out of emerald fabrics.  I quickly ordered a bunch of emerald prints and a few solids, most of which were Art Gallery prints, with a touch of Lizzy House and Joel Dewberry.  Then I began to draft the pattern, made some templates, whipped up a test block and the rest is history.  Actually the test block turned out perfect and is in the quilt (the one with the horizontal placement.)
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Once I had six blocks, I decided for a simple modern layout and sticking with the "Jewel" theme chose a nice Jewel tone shot cotton for the background (which I think is called Prune.)  I used three prints to make the backing, the top and middle prints are Anna Maria Horner, and the bottom an Art Gallery Print.  Once I had my top and back, and some 100% cotton batting, I was ready to baste.  I pin basted this quilt and there she sat for quite a while.
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I wasn't sure what color thread to use or what quilting pattern I wanted to try.  After growing tired of "thinking about it" I went to the store and picked a lovely emerald colored thread that I felt would stand out on the shot cotton background, but blend into the blocks themselves.  Then I had to decide on quilting.  I can't remember how I came up with this idea, but i knew I wanted to somehow incorporate "sparkles" into the quilting.  I wanted those emeralds to twinkle and shine!  Be it that I wanted my quilt to have a modern feel, I chose a very organic straight line quilting that stopped and "sparkled" every now and then with no real pattern.  The lines are roughly 5/8" to 3/4" apart and the sparkles or stars are just randomly placed.  I aimed to have more sparkles on the actual jewels themselves with a few random ones extending just beyond the jewels onto the background fabric.
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You can see from the photo above and below that I was very organic with these lines, they wiggled all over the place!  The quilting process was fun and easy, no big problems and was relatively quick too.  I want to say that I quilted this one in roughly two days here and there, starting and stopping a ton.  Which is a nice feature of this type of quilting.  You can stop after each line if you want too.
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I'm not going to lie, this quilt wasn't even close to square (or rectangle!)  Once I was done quilting, i laid her on the floor and she was seriously wonky.  I spent a good amount of time trimming the edges and making her as square as possible, and by the eye, it looks square, so I guess that is what matters most.  Who cares that the top edge measures 1/2" longer than the bottom edge!
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Emerald Cut is bound in Art Gallery Oval Elements in Eggplant.  Honestly the binding is my favorite part of this quilt, I just love that I used a print for the binding, but it blends in so well you hardly notice.  I love it!  Though I have been favoring machine stitching the binding, I finished this one by hand.  I felt this quilt was more a piece of art and since it will be a wall hanging, I wanted it bound nice and properly.  Finished, Emerald Cut measures 34" x 50."  A special thanks to my mom who helped me with the photographs this weekend!  She wins the whitest sneakers award for sure!
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The Emerald Cut quilt was the first project listed on my fourth quarter finish-a-long list. I am happy to say that I met this goal and can link up over at She Can Quilt.  Thank you so much Leanne for hosting a great year of the Finish-A-Long!
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Flying Blind
1/6/2014 06:34:51 am

It's lovely! I think I definitely need more purples in my stash ;)

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Debbie link
1/6/2014 06:54:29 am

I remember when I first say this quilt I was so taken with it, and that has not changed one iota! I don't remember the 'sparkles' but I love them! Thanks for sharing so many details about your process - I really enjoy that!! Congrats on a very fine finish!

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Tiffany link
1/6/2014 10:47:49 am

I think it's awesome that your "2013 Color of the Year" quilt includes a background color that is very close to the color of the year for 2014.

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