My Fabric Obsession: commissioned

Monday, November 24, 2014

Must love purple again....

I have another quilt to share, but it looks very much like something I've made before!

Yup, my Must Love Purple quilt that I showed at Bloggers Quilt Fest 2012. I was contacted by someone who wanted me to recreate this for her and I was happy to do it. After all, I love purple!

Most of the fabrics came from my stash, but she did provide several and I tried to tailor the color palate to what she sent me. I had taken this to a retreat to quilt it and was asked where I got all the purple. I realized that I have just been collecting it! When I find it, I buy a little bit here and there!

The tutorial for this block can be found here at Nittany Block Party.

I kept the quilting deliberately loose (as in, not densely quilted) so the quilt will be nice and snuggly. I only quilted along the scrappy stripes and then around the borders. I used a variegated thread (didn't get a great shot of that).

This is ONE BIG QUILT! Because I stink at quilt math, she asked for 80" x90" and I wound up at 90" x 100"! LOL To give you a sense of the size, one of the 4 parts that makes up the square is 6.75".

You can see the quilting a little better on the back of the quilt. All of the greens and the blue back here are extras of what the client sent me.

I made the binding scrappy too. I always love a scrappy binding. Now to send this off to it's new home!

Quilt stats:

Size: 90" x 100"

Pattern: X String Block

Fabrics: Mix of scraps and stash

Quilted by: Myself

Finished: 11/14/2014

Sunday, June 23, 2013

Nautical Quilt - take 2

Many of you will remember this nautical quilt that I made for my sister. She has it posted on Project Nursery right here. Through that site a lovely woman contacted me and asked me to make one for her coming baby girl. Unfortunately, that quilt is made with Neptune, which is of course hard to find. I have some, but not enough to duplicate it. Fortunately, Tula Pink designed Salt Water recently. It has the same feel so I started with that as my main focus. I'm really happy with the results!

I did a bunch of customization for her. The boat flags are a Polish and American flag for the parents and I hand embroidered the baby's name on it.

I used an off white for the background for more durability for a baby quilt and since Salt Water has a a bit of off white throughout it.

The quilting I did the same way as my sisters.

She wanted to hang the quilt initially so I added corner pockets so a dowel rod could be inserted. I'm hoping it works well, I've never used this method on such a big quilt.