Oh my goodness, I actually finished something! I started this quilt almost a year ago, and this past weekend it was gifted to my just turned one year old nephew. I ended up with a bunch of random scraps that were roughly all the same width, and I didn't know what I wanted to do with them for a while, but last summer when I joined Stashtacular! and this pattern was released, I knew it was perfect and meant to be, my scraps were the same width the pattern called for! I quickly stitched up the rows, but then the project stalled out for quite some time as I tried to decide what fabric I wanted to use as the sashing. Nothing seemed right and I bought several solids that didn't quite work. About six months later I bought the green circles and knew that I would use it, even though it is quite busy, I like all the colors and patterns on this quilt. In an effort to finish up all my works in progress from the past few years, I worked hard the past few weeks to get this quilt done on time. I am so happy to actually have met my own deadline!
This quilt pattern comes from Jenna over at Sew Happy Geek, and was a featured tutorial last year during Stashtacular! You can find the tutorial for this quilt HERE. The fabric is My Mind's Eye by Riley Blake Fabrics and is the Wheels collection. The green and white circles print is Metro Living Circles by Robert Kaufman. I used a polyester high loft batting for that extra puffy feel, and machine quilted it with straight lines and simple "x's" or from the back view it looks more like wonky diamonds. The binding is an abstract floral print from Micheal Miller, but since the print is so large and abstract you can't really tell that it is flowers, and the best part is that it matches all the colors so perfectly! Jenna's pattern calls for six rows on the front, but knowing that I wanted the quilt to be a certain size to accommodate the backing fabric, I used the last extra row on the back, and couldn't be happier with how the back turned out. I really feel this is a reversible quilt, which is perfect for a little one who has no idea of a "right side" or "wrong side!"
I learned a little something while making this quilt. I used my walking foot for the quilting, and everything I had read about a walking foot always mentioned to go slower, so that it worked correctly, but the last few quilts that I quilted, I had problems with the foot not really working right. Out of sheer frustration and lack of free time, I put the pedal to the metal on this one and stitched a lot faster than I normally would, and found out that on my machine, the foot worked much better and I had absolutely no puckering or problems. So from now on, I'll be stitching much more quickly than I normally do!
Quilted x's on the front.
Quilted wonky diamonds on the back.
What was my four year old doing while I was snapping these shots? Desperate to be included in the photo, of course. So this one is for him, Easter basket, cheesy grin and all!
Since i forgot to measure the finished quilt before I gave it way, this picture serves as a great example of scale!
Since i forgot to measure the finished quilt before I gave it way, this picture serves as a great example of scale!
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