My Flour Garden Canopy quilt is finished. This is the second quilt made from the fabrics gifted by my friend…she received the first quilt as a surprise birthday gift.
I had some left over fabric, just enough to team with the light grey backing fabric, to make matching pillow covers. I am really happy with the new ‘springtime’ look of our bedroom.
I have been spending some relaxing days colouring and shading with my Inktense Pencils.
The designs are by Helen Godden, her Danish Delights patterns which are based on Helen’s favourite pieces of silver jewellery from Danish silversmiths from the 1930s and 1940s. The subtle colour created by the pencils works really well on the printed cream cotton fabric. The fabric print provides an added element to the design with the fabric weave showing through. The designs are outlined with a black sharpie pen onto the cream fabric then coloured. I used a textile medium to release the pencil colour as this helps prevent bleeding from one area to the next. The final step is the quilting, with some subtle white quilting in the background and black thread to enhance the design.
I decided to use each design as the centre for a series of placemats.
An excellent way to experiment and develop your free motion machine quilting is to play with a fabric panel. Here is a cot panel I have been enhancing . . It lets you be creative and experiment with different fill designs plus allows you to quilt on the printed lines ( similar to quilting in the ditch) to outline each shape. A quick and easy way to prepare a cute quilt for someone special.
Here is the finished quilt made with the Flour Garden fabrics designed by Linzee Cull McCray for Moda Fabrics. The quilt pattern is called Canopy, from Clark Street Quilts. I added an extra border to make it fit a queen size bed. I love the quilt and it’s soft, crisp colours. It goes perfectly with the colour scheme in my bedroom. This will be a surprise for a special friend who gifted me the fabrics….I still have to finish a matching quilt for me.
I had a lovely surprise a few months ago when the mail man delivered a parcel of 36 fat quarters, a beautiful gift from a dear friend. The fabric is ‘Flour Garden’ by Linzee Kull McCray for Moda Fabrics. I wanted to make something special. I worked out there was enough fabric to make 2 queen size quilts if I added a cream background fabric. One for me and one for my special friend. We will have matching quilts. Clark Street Quilts had designed the quilt ‘Canopy’ using these fabrics…..this worked perfectly with the fabric quantities I had.
After lots of cutting and sewing I have 72 twelve inch squares, 36 for each quilt.
I am now in the process of quilting the first quilt……the second quilt is still to have its 12 inch squares pieced together. I think that will be kept for a rainy day in the future.
The quilting is the fun part. I enjoy seeing the design being transformed into a soft, textured quilt.
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