21 May 2012

Bloggers' Quilt Festival: Almondesque

Following a cheeky comment how she unfortunately had all her children before I started making (baby) quilts, I decided to make this quilt for two of our closest friends as a homewarming gift. They had just moved into a Bauhaus inspired new home and because of their love of New England and Edward Hopper, blue stuck itself to my mind in terms of over-riding colour.

I had spent some time "researching" Bauhaus patterns, aka browsing Flickr and finally settled on this design. With pencil and paper, I calculated the size, different amounts of fabric etc. and then set about trying to find coordinating blues ... that resulted in quite the stash (and another project: "Helena the Great")

Done - perspective

Despite my usual tendencies to not waste too much time ironing and cutting properly, I took great care with this project, probably also because I had the time, kicking it off during last year's retreat. And I am pleased to say that this care really paid off. The corners align well, making straight line quilting so much easier.

Done - details of quilting

This is the result: I am really pleased. It was inspired by this photo on the left:
Bauhaus Inspired Quilt DONE!

The quilt was very well received and a total surprise for my friends, taking pride of place on the lounge sofa and getting a lot of use.

Vital Stats:
105 * 185 cm, roughly
Kona Solids
Gütermann and Aurifil threads
Freudenberg 100% cotton wadding
lotsa fun to make! .... more

6 comments:

Julie Fukuda said...

Such an interesting design and use of solids. Lucky friend!

Lonci said...

Beautiful, i love this quilt:)))

Quiltbenaco said...

Fantastico l'uso del colore!
Ciao

CitricSugar said...

Lovely! I have received a cheeky comment from my sister so I should probably get making hers soon.. :-)

Kirsten said...

Love the use of solids - great design!

Milly said...

Beautiful, simple and elegant.