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Pattern: Geode by Blossom Heart Quilts
Longarm Quilting Pattern: Will O’ the Wisp by Hermione Agee of Lorien Quilting
Fabrics: Customer-provided table runners that she had printed by Spoonflower and used at her wedding :). Then we filled in with these:
Tilda Solids Light Blue Yardage
SKU# TIL120044
Bee Cross Stitch Denim Yardage
SKU# C745-DENIM
Kimberbell Silky Wild Blueberry Yardage
SKU# MAS500-WIBL
Batting: Hobbs Heirloom 80/20
Backing: Thatched 48626 94 Navy Tonal Moda Robin Pickens – 108″
Binding: Scrappy binding from the chinoiserie fabrics, all machine finished
Threads: Superior Threads So Fine and Bottom Line. I don’t remember what colors, mid-tone greys most likely
Thoughts: This was a commission to preserve the customer’s wedding table runners! My favorite customer projects are ones in which we’re using fabric from one thing and turning it into a quilt, it’s very in alignment with the spirit of quilt making. The fun and challenge in this quilt was all the fussy cutting. It wasn’t so bad on the squares, obviously, but it was a little trickier to wrap my brain around on the flying geese blocks and making sure everything was working cohesively in the finished block.
While I did buy the quilt pattern from Blossom Heart Quilts, I didn’t end up using it. I don’t like the suggested style of flying geese block construction, and it certainly wouldn’t have worked for the fussy cutting style, so I ended up doing all of my own math. Oh well!
As for overall color layout, it took me a bit to crack that nut. The customer wanted a solid light blue, then couldn’t decide between two dark blues–a low volume and a solid. In the end, having those three fabrics worked perfectly, paired with the 3 chinoiserie motifs.
Each block had 3 parts: a frame, an X, and a sawtooth star. Each chinoiserie motif was used in 1 frame, 2 X’s, and 2 sawtooth stars, all reflected against themselves in the X’s and sawtooths on the horizontal axis. Then the navies alternated on the horizontal rows, creating 4 frames, 4 X’s, and 4 sawtooths each. The light blue solid and the chinoiserie frames alternated on the columns.
Overall, I’m really pleased with how this turned out! I did underestimate how long it would take to make the individual blocks, but now I have a much clearer picture of how long blocks like this will take in the future. You pay for your experience :’).
Thread & Thrum 