This week I've been busy planning borders, making up backings & deciding on possible binding fabrics. Here's a few pics & plans for a few of my quilt tops.
My bohemian TATW quilt was started back in March 2025. It's fun quilt, created by making 2 of the same block construction-wise but they have a bit of variation in colour palette. Block A is a playful scrappy 4 fabric/4colour combo while Block B is a repeat of the same intense b&W stripe, pink & gold colours. And the two blocks alternate back and forth across the design.
When I laid it out, I decided to add another border to bring it up to more of a cuddle quilt size. Actually, I was hoping to avoid making a "pink" quilt ... but the pink kept popping up, like in those path-like squares around each block and again when I added that 2nd border in a light pink floral! And then as if it was meant to be, I found 2 metres of this Kaffe 'stone flower' in yellow with the pink floral motif from deep in my stash, too perfect not to use as a backing.
This pink quilt is growing on me!
My cabin nights quilt is about as pastel as I can get! Love love loved making this one and wanted to get it finished as soon as. For a backing, I added a few borders to my scrappy light/dark HSTs diamond quilt to get it a little bigger than my quilt top.
You've seen my iced vovo quilt recently. I chose a soft 'floating log cabins' quilt top in lots of lights with accents in plum as my backing. I did add wide borders to the backing, again to facilitate loading onto the long arm quilting machine.
Housetop 9block variation quilt top was made back in February 2024, time to turn it into a quilt.
I went a bit loosey goosey here, making my own version of a 'house top' block, a favourite block obviously inspired by the Gees Bend quilters and their amazing quilts & a recent quilt from Windham Fabrics. Love a quilt that's made from leftover pieces from past quilts, it's a real trip down memory lane.
My gently 'green' log cabin quilt top was virtually the same size, so I'm using it as a backing. Yep, log cabins back & front!
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Fingers crossed the quilting fairy can work her magic soon
1 comment:
By doubling up tops as backs too, you are getting a lot quilted up. I'm curious how many more tops you have waiting in line for quilting. I'm down to 18, first time I've had less than 20 for about 19 years.
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