Cover Girl! and A Giveaway

I am so pleased to show you another design featured in Modern by the Yard, the ezine by Benartex. I am over the freaking moon that it's the cover quilt! This is a first for me, and feels pretty good.

You can download your copy for free either by clicking the photo above, or here. You'll find not just four fabulous projects within, but also fabric bundles inspiration and a modern twist on the spool block.

Once again, this was one of my designs in the 30quiltdesignsin60days challenge that I hosted in 2019. I think that needs to come back in 2021, no? I made the quilt back in August.

When I saw that my quilt was photographed on such a sweet vintage truck, I did a little happy dance, and of course, had to run and show MacGyver, because ya know, he's a hard core car dude.

I was asked to work with Color Theory by Kanvas (be sure to check out that link; there's a free pattern download there) and to make a baby quilt size version of my design. My original colouring of the quilt had all the shadows in grey, but I was asked to have a grey background to balance out the issue, and so I went with light/dark values for the arrows. Primary colours are never a problem in baby quilts right? Here is one of the original colourings:

If you've followed me for any length of time, you'll know how much I love shadow quilts. I see the design with the shadows underneath or behind as shown above, but with the actual quilt having two values of the same colour, it could go either way.

I stitched the quilt top up on Billie, my 1947 Featherweight, with a little help for the flying geese from my Bernina, which has an extended table with markings on it so there is no need for marking the squares! to make the flying geese part of the arrows. The less marking the better imho, whether it's piecing or quilting.

I kept the quilting simple and modern, but with a bit of a twist: instead of straight lines all one way, I divided the quilt in quadrants, and alternated horizontal and vertical lines. I really like the effect, especially on a small quilt. It's doable on a longarm with just a little turning of the rails.

I did add a little custom quilting in the form of ribbon candy in some of the arrows, and extended the ribbon candy into the background. It kind of emphasizes a path. Every kid should follow her (or his) own path, wherever that may take them!

I quilted the border with a simple triangle design.

Here is the back, a cool black and white from the line:

It is machine bound, making sure to match the border fabric with its coordinating pair! I was pretty chuffed to have thought of that and executed it. I matched the bobbin threads to the fabrics when I topstitched down the binding so that it would disappear on the quilt front.

The quilt is for sale in my Etsy shop. I think it would make a terrific Christmas present for a little one. Ahh, summer...

FOR SALE

Quilt Stats:
Pattern: Original design 
Size: 42" x 46"
Fabric: Color Theory by Kanvas for Benartex
Backing: as above
Batting: Hobbs Heirloom Premium 80/20 batting 
Quilted: on Avril; 38 702 stitches

Threads: pieced with Gütermann and Essential cotton 50 weight mainly on Billie, my 1947 Featherweight; quilted with Essential 100% cotton in Stone, and Aurifil 2810 and 2455

I also was asked to curate a fabric bundle. You can see what I came up with on page 7 of the ezine.

Would you like to get your hands on some Color Theory? I have a stack of fat eighths of all eight arrow colours which is what you need to make the arrows. You'll just need background and borders fabric.

Just leave a comment below telling me if you've made a baby quilt this year. Remember to include your email if you are a no-reply. Giveaway ends on Saturday and I'll notify the winner by email. 

😍Giveaway is open worldwide!💞

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