Remember the “Jack’s Quilt” Pattern I posted a few weeks back by Bryan House Quilts? I’ve finally quilted and bound it…plus, I have a bonus project using scraps from the paper-piecing!
With the strong fuchsia colors in my quilt, I wanted to balance it out with more black and white. Carolyn Friedlander’s Widescreen in white fit the bill perfectly. The gridlines play well with the graphic piecing and who doesn’t love a wideback?!? I MUCH prefer a single wideback fabric panel than piecing a few together.
Did you know when you purchase this quilt pattern, it comes with a coloring sheet? I LOVE having coloring sheets to help me pick out colors and fabrics. Best of all….it helps with figuring how I am going to quilt everything together! I’m all about straight-lines and I wanted to follow the star spokes. I tested a few designs and settled on this purple one. I wish coloring sheets came standard with ALL quilt patterns 🙂
This simple quilting was exactly what I wanted…something to extenuate the pattern design without being too busy AND with lines that could continue from end to end of the quilt. I am definitely not a fan of burying threads, so I try to avoid it whenever possible!
We had a family trip coming up while I was working on this quilt, so I knew I needed to quilt it quickly and attach the binding so I could hand finish it while we were vacationing. I don’t know about you, but I always like to have some hand-sewing around whenever I’m away from home. You never know when you have some free time…and I was able to sew on the binding right on this hammock watching the sunset! {Heaven}
For the binding, I initially thought I would use Carolyn Friedlander’s Architextures Grid in Black. But since the lines are more “free-hand,” the irregular lines didn’t go together with all the strong shapes of the quilt and backing. I played with stripes and dots, but ended up with Cotton and Steel’s Netorious basic in Black Cat. The lines in this pattern are graphic and matched the overall feel of my quilt. The black binding really made the fuschia pop as well! I really love how it all came out.
If I’m working on a quilt, I like to take that along in case any perfect photo opportunities present itself as well…you just never know. It’s turns out I didn’t have to go far to find some great backgrounds and props. This is the exterior of my in-laws cottage and they had these great bright yellow “vintage” inspired chairs. The sharp color contrasts with my quilt were just stunning!
As mentioned above, I have a BONUS project from the quilt pattern!
The paper-piecing of the spokes produces a good bit of triangular scraps. I used them to improv a pincushion. I just alternated the direction of each triangle of similar sizing and then trimmed the piece to a rectangle. There was plenty of scraps from the backing as well, so I used the Widescreen to back these and filled them up. You could make the improv piecing larger and also make mug rugs and even pot holders!
What fun secondary projects have come out of your quilt scraps?
Happy Quilting,
Cristy
The pattern was provided by Bryan House Quilts as part of testing. All material was purchased and selected by myself. All opinions and comments are my own and have not been influenced by 3rd parties.