Two very good friends of mine are due a little baby in November and back in September I hatched a plan to sew them a quilt. Rather than a cutesy pastel-type baby quilt, I decided to base the palette upon their favourite colours of green and purple.
As it was my first quilting project I chose to use pre-cut Moda solid colour charm packs which I purchased from Ray Stitch in Islington alongside a metre and a half of lovely 100% organic and Fairtrade cotton for extra patches and the backing fabric. I also got just over a metre of organic cotton quilting batting too (£7.50).
I selected two sizes the
Moda Solid Colour charm pack 5" and the 2.5" (£10 and £3.50). I used two and a half packs of the 5" and three packs of the 2.5" patches for my final design.
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| Selecting the colour palette. The charm-pack comes with the full rainbow spectrum so I omitted the reds, oranges and whites |
Here are the many variants of design process I went through and I will show you the final result at the end.
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| First variation with a colour blend from Purple to green. I didn't think it had balance |
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| This next version appears to be a random selection with greens, purples and all shades in-between placed with dark, mid and lighter shades distributed more evenly |
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| Without the little patches I felt it looked a bit too plain! |
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| Patchwork stacks. After establishing my chosen order I stacked them ready to sew together. I labelled them so I wouldn't forget the placement of the patches. You may notice the little patches have a log-cabin-esque border. I forgot about the seam allowances so when the four patches were sewn together they were too small to tesselate with the 5" patches. I had to buy a third 5" charm pack so I could create the borders for these little patches. I actually think made the quilt look better! |
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| Final order safety pinned ready for quilting. |
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| Quilted with vertical lines running alongside the patches and a line in the centre (that runs through the middle of the little patches too). Green bias-binding has been pinned ready for sewing - think I am going to hand stitch it in place? |
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| Close up of the patches and my slightly wonky quilting! |
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| The final quilt. I am hand-sewing the binding. It may take some time! |
What have you been sewing recently?
Have you started any Christmas gifts?
Or some super selfish sewing?
