Merry Christmas! I hope everyone had a fun and festive day yesterday. As dictated by tradition, ours was full of far too much food and enough hastily torn wrapping paper to redecorate a small bedroom. If it were any other way then it wouldn’t really be Christmas, would it? I was spoilt by no less than seven quilting books which will see me stocked up on inspiration for years to come, as well as fabric given to me months before so that I might “look at it” before it was wrapped. Let’s just say some wrapping paper was saved…
Now that the man in red has delivered his wares I can finally reveal the quilt I completed a few weeks ago. As I said in this post, this quilt came about quite spontaneously and wasn’t something that was on my to-do list. I was asked to make it for a new addition to our family and with the deadline being Christmas, I knew it had to be something quick and easy.
Half Square triangles are one of my favourite block components. They’re simple to make on mass and can be arranged in so many different ways. I really enjoyed pulling fabrics for this quilt. Whilst I wanted to stick to the traditional masculine colours, I love the orange for the zesty pop of colour it adds to the quilt. The mix of solids, tone-on-tone prints and fussy cut pieces really works for this baby quilt, and there are lots of cute images for the recipient to “I spy” in a few years time. I couldn’t resist some Heather Ross goldfish and dogs from her Lightening Bugs and other Mysteries collection for this very reason.
The quilting was kept simple, an edge-to-edge stipple, as was the backing fabric, which was the bargain I secured a few months back. The binding is one of my favourite prints from Architextures by Carolyn Friedlander, crosshatch in black, which finishes off the quilt perfectly. I’ve already been told that the quilt was the favourite present of the day and is to be cherished forever. What more reward could us quilters ask for?
Quilts From The Attic 