Wednesday 12 July 2017

Moody Blues Quilt

My life is currently a cycle of :

We have a lot of quilts
We need no more quilts
I have an idea for a quilt
I'm going to make a quilt
This will be my last quilt 
I like this quilt
We have a lot of quilts
We need no more quilts
I have an idea for a quilt..........

My house currently contains 8 quilts/blankets yeah EIGHT! In fact I can offer guests a selections of quilts to choose from. So naturally I made another!


This is the "moody blues quilt" thus named because 1. its blue...... and 2. I was listening to my Chicago blues record whilst I quilted it. 


It started off as a jelly roll form hobbycraft that was a heck of a lot smaller than I thought it was going to be so I had to do a bit of stash digging and that's when I decided to make it a ombre quilt! 

I loves an ombre. As always apart from the jelly roll which I now can;t find on the hobbycraft website to link to, I only used stash fabrics and leftovers. The idea ended up being pretty simple, I cut stripes of fabric the same width as the jelly roll stripes and then laid them all out on my floor fading from dark to light. Sorting the fabrics was very therapeutic, I'm not sure its 100% true to my fading vision but I think its passable.


Next I sewed all the stripes end to end making sure any stripes of the same pattern were not directly next to each other. There was roughly two of each stripe so I alternated them.


Some of the rest of the fabrics are from craft yourself silly, craft cotton company, abakhans and Dashwood studios!


The bees and the fish are by craft yourself silly and are custom print fabrics. 


Quilting wise I backed it with a fleece blanket and just did some simple straight line quilting. I tried to keep it sparse because we don't like our blankets too stiff in our house. 

Size wise its a lap quilt and is lovely for snuggling up under on the sofa! We are also planning on using all of our blankets when we go camping so we can stay warm! 


Verdict? I love it! Its one of my favourite quilts that I've ever made and I love how the colours all correspond together.

In other news:

I've started another quilt!

*face palms*

Much Love

Frankie 

xxx

8 comments:

  1. I really like that quilt. I some of that fabric from Craft yourself silly too. I am currently deep in quilt territory. Jo x

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    1. there fabrics are sooo cool!!!! I love them! x

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  2. They do say, first you make a quilt for yourself, then you make another and another until you have enough. Then you make them for all your family and then you start making them for charity, because if you love quilt making you just have to keep on going. I am at the charity stage now. I have made a few for Project Linus who collect for babies and children in hospital and care.

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    1. since I started back up quilting Ive made one for every baby thats been born into our lil family/friends circle! 5 so far!!!!
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  3. Such a lovely quilt, I'm at the quilts for friends stage x

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    1. Thats so nice! Love the of of making them for friends x

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  4. How can you only have eight quilts?????
    We have 3 on our bed, 2 on the spare bed, several lap quilts and a few Christmas ones packed away. The family have at least one each, babies have more and there are always at least 4 of various sizes folded up and waiting to be gifted not to mention the cushions and charity quilts and the WIP's....

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    1. Oh we have a christmas one too! I gave a lot away when people have babies and stuff! Sounds like I have some catching up to do though! x

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