The last of the basted flimsies are quilted and the binding is finished.
The first quilt is called Awareness because it's made from a 3-yard pattern called Awareness which was designed by Donna Robertson and Fran Morgan, owners & designers of the Fabric Cafe. I pieced this flimsy last January during a snowstorm while retreating at the Essenhaus Inn, I am so glad winter is over 😉!
My finished quilt measures 45" by 51" which is a little smaller than the patterns says.
Fabrics from the stash were pulled for the backing. Of course some fossil fern fabrics have been used but I have no memory of purchasing the other fabrics. They were 1/3rd yard WOF cuts but they were anywhere from 10" - 14" wide after the edges were cut straight.
The next quilt is one I named Butterfly Beauty. I bought this fabric at Calico Point, probably in the winter when I really need a touch of summer. There was only one yard of the butterfly fabric, I tried to use every bit of it.
Butterfly Beauty is my own design. The border fabric is a pinstripe light gray fabric. As usual I used simple quilting.
I definitely had to use my math skills for this quilt. I would have used the Awareness pattern if I would have had more of the purple fabric but I only had a small piece, enough for the two corners.
The outside border was piano key quilted with diagonal quilting in the corners.
The quilting used a pastel variegated thread which doesn't show the different colors in the thread. The gray border fabric looks rather wrinkly for some reason. I do wash the quilts after they're quilted to remove the markings and the spray adhesive. The borders are quilted approximately 2" apart, maybe it should have been closer? Oh well, the quilting is finished and I'm not going to do a redo.
The backing was this cute floral periwinkle fabric I pulled from my stash.
Butterfly Beauty finishes at 42" by 51", not a huge quilt but large enough to give someone a quilty hug.
There are several flimsies waiting to be quilted for compassion quilts hanging in the 'to be quilted' closet but I've reached my goal of 6 finished compassion quilts. The rest will have to wait until next year.
Besides the 6 compassion quilts, 2 other quilts were finished which are gifts. I already gave the Fabric Vortex to our grandson and the Turquoise quilt will be gifted this summer. I'm pleased with my quilting this year, none of the quilts had pleats in the backing fabric and my lines were straighter. It was challenging to quilt butterfly beauty because it was hard to see the diagonal lines on the fabric. I used my quilting guide for the first time. I've tried to use it before but it always dug into the seam lines then made a zigzag which I didn't like. It worked perfectly on whole cloth.
Linking to - Wednesday Wait Loss, Put Your Foot Down, I Quilted This!, TGIFF!, Finished or Not Friday, Off the Wall Friday, Beauty Pageant, Patchwork & Quilts
2 comments:
Love your butterfly quilt! Sometimes the fabric is too beautiful to cut up! It’s just gorgeous! I am working on my four patch scrappy quilt thanks to your post showing your beautiful scrap quilts.
Both these quilts are beautiful! I love the way you used your own design and placed the fabric on the butterfly quilt. And if you didn't have any pleats in the backing after quilting, I call that a win. :D
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