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| Hot off the ... sewing machine last night! |
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| In the early morning sunshine |
You may recall that my friend Cathy met up with us in Whitby for lunch on our way home from our Maritimes trip. We had a great catch-up and afterwards she surprised me with this quilt top. I originally thought she’d made it with a couple of friends, but no, she made it herself, using scraps from her Postcard from Sweden quilt, which she'd done with me several years ago in a QAL and my Sunset Strip quilt pattern.
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| Cathy is telling me about the make |
I did have one other flimsy in the 'to be quilted' pile, Tropical Twist, so I got that one done, and once I'd found a suitable backing, loaded this one. It probably took almost as long to fuss about/overthink what motif I'd quilt on this quilt. My previous renditions had seen an overall fat flower and leaves motif, another with a hearts and loops motif, and both had a tumbling feathers 'vine' flowing on the right side of the o blocks. The original had some pretty major custom quilting.😳
I wanted a circular motif, so it was gender-neutral, and could even work for an adult as a small lap quilt or take-to-yoga quilt. Yvonne of Quilting Jetgirl had a finish this week with a circuit board-style motif her husband calls rounded robot (love that name), and that twigged my brain because I know Leah Day had done a circuit board motif, and somewhere in the many quilts I've quilted, I thought I had. More time going down rabbit holes in my Quilt Gallery, and on Leah's site... The quilt where I thought I'd done it, Ladder Links, one in a Benartex ezine, was actually a design of Christina Cameli's that I'd added to, and no, it wasn't a circuit board, just wavy lines over which circles and rectangles floated. Interesting that it's the same year as the original Cheerio! quilt. Anyhow, this motif is Leah's Angles and Circles design, but with rounded robot corners. So it's a mashup!
I've wanted to use this yardage I've had forever in my backing vault, but it hasn't seemed right, until now, and even then, it doesn't totally go with the front, but I like the surprise. Maybe since we'd just come back from Lunenburg, a UNESCO heritage village in Nova Scotia with these types of beautiful houses in an array of bright colours, but it needed to be on Cathy's quilt. It fit perfectly with about 5" overage on the side. I was very pleased that I got it lined up so straight!
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| Love that texture. Kingsville has lots of these 'Painted Ladies' Victorian houses too. |
It had to have a rainbow binding of sorts, and this was another chunk languishing in my rainbow binding chunks drawer. I thought it not too bright for the backing but bright enough for the front! I was surprised to unroll it and find it was two fat quarters! I think I bought it several years ago from a local quilt shop that was either at a guild meeting or a sewing bee selling her wares. In any event, I'd bought it specifically to use as a binding somewhere.
It all works well I think!
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| I squeezed in my initials in the lower left. |
I'm confident that the right home in need of some comfort will show itself. It will get laundered and then added to the pile of comfort quilts waiting to go to their forever homes.
Quilt Stats:
Size: 38" x 44"
Pattern: Sunset Strip
Fabric: Kona cotton scraps
Fabric: Kona cotton scraps
Batting: Fairfield 100% polyester
Backing: Victorian Morning by Sue Wall for N. Erlanger Blumgart
Quilted: on Avril, 31 565 stitches
Threads: pieced by Cathy; quilted with Essential 100% cotton white; Floriani rayon in the bobbin
it works great!! I love the rabbit hole you went down to determine the quilting motif - thats so great. and what a fun top!!
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