We’re celebrating the arrival of summer in the southern hemisphere, and this quilt top screams everything summery to me - it's light and bright with lots of blue! It’s scrappy but with purpose✅ and objective✅ It's really super seeing scraps from so many of my earlier quilts finding a home in this one!
My daughter requested a large quilt, leaving the decisions on fabric, pattern, etc to me. This week, while I've been making the blocks, I've also been wondering how I was going to make this a bit bigger but still keep things looking in proportion, balanced & cohesive.
For those of you who are curious, I ended up making the 16 blocks as per the pattern ("me sew happy" quilt from these clever hands), and then I added two rows of extra squares to the top & bottom, 1 row of extra squares to the sides, and finally the two borders.
- yes, it's definitely big enough to go down over the sides & the bottom of a king-sized bed!
Finished quilt top measures 94" x 87" (approx.) - and my daughter is very happy.
Hoping to get some extra quilty texture added from Leeanne early in the New Year,
just in time for my daughter & her husband's Wedding Anniversary.
Until next time, Linda
the quilt does look very summery I bet your daughter will love it.
ReplyDeleteThat's a beauty, Linda! It's definitely summery and fresh. I love the pop of the black and white dots here and there! I bet your daughter will love this!
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt...it has a light bright feel to it. It will be much loved I'm sure.
ReplyDeleteThere are so many pretty fabrics in this top. Definitely looks like summer with blue skies.
ReplyDeleteOh gosh. Look at you with a finished top already! I'm late to the party, for sure. It turned out great. Given the size, I an understand why you'd send it off for longarm quilting. I have domestic machine quilted a quilt near to that size, and I can tell you it took a couple weeks to accomplish! Your daughter will love it.
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