Did you hear that sound? That swooshing sound? It was the sound of me discovering Pinterest and having hours of my life sucked away. I resisted as long as I could but with Pinterest, resistence is futile.
One Pinterest rabbit trail led me to St. Louis 16 Patch, a FREE pattern!!! I ran immediately to my fat quarter collection and pulled out a stack of Joel Dewberry's Flora fabrics. I petted and pressed and arranged my fat quarters until I was happy with the pairings, then I pulled up the pattern and read it carefully before starting. My brain exploded when I realized that the pattern was written by a friend of mine, the fabulous Steffani K. Burton! How the heck did I miss this important detail? It probably was because I was blinded by the elegant simplicity of the quilt and my desire to make one for myself RIGHT NOW!
I made the quilt top last week while recovering from some medical nonsense (quilting is the best medicine) and I enjoyed every second of it!
I love this!
But now I'm stumped again. I selected a few threads for machine quilting and want your opinion:
Which one should I use?
I could use Olive Trees:
This is three shades of olive and would read as a solid in the quilting.
I could use Midas Touch:
While I don't have a favorite color of FabuLux, this spool of three shades of rich gold is the one I've used on more quilts than any other spool. I love the way this blends into many different colors!
I could use Rocking Horse:
This variegated pastel surprised me as a choice. The thread is peach, light blue, and mint and actually blended pretty well into the quilt when I puddled the thread onto the quilt top.
The last choice is the bold one, Blue Heaven:
This is three shades of bright blue. I would definitely see the thread on this quilt and that could be a good thing!
I plan to use wool batting so the quilting will show and I plan to quilt it in a variety of free-motion quilting pattern like I did on this quilt:
This was quilted with Midas Touch, a pretty dark thread for this quilt, but the color of the quilting doesn't overwhelm the quilt.
I plan to bind my St. Louis 16 Patch in a variety of strips cut from more Flora fat quarters. I could also pick a solid color to use for binding. Is there a specific color that you think would work for binding?
One Pinterest rabbit trail led me to St. Louis 16 Patch, a FREE pattern!!! I ran immediately to my fat quarter collection and pulled out a stack of Joel Dewberry's Flora fabrics. I petted and pressed and arranged my fat quarters until I was happy with the pairings, then I pulled up the pattern and read it carefully before starting. My brain exploded when I realized that the pattern was written by a friend of mine, the fabulous Steffani K. Burton! How the heck did I miss this important detail? It probably was because I was blinded by the elegant simplicity of the quilt and my desire to make one for myself RIGHT NOW!
I made the quilt top last week while recovering from some medical nonsense (quilting is the best medicine) and I enjoyed every second of it!
I love this!
But now I'm stumped again. I selected a few threads for machine quilting and want your opinion:
Which one should I use?
I could use Olive Trees:
This is three shades of olive and would read as a solid in the quilting.
I could use Midas Touch:
While I don't have a favorite color of FabuLux, this spool of three shades of rich gold is the one I've used on more quilts than any other spool. I love the way this blends into many different colors!
I could use Rocking Horse:
This variegated pastel surprised me as a choice. The thread is peach, light blue, and mint and actually blended pretty well into the quilt when I puddled the thread onto the quilt top.
The last choice is the bold one, Blue Heaven:
This is three shades of bright blue. I would definitely see the thread on this quilt and that could be a good thing!
I plan to use wool batting so the quilting will show and I plan to quilt it in a variety of free-motion quilting pattern like I did on this quilt:
This was quilted with Midas Touch, a pretty dark thread for this quilt, but the color of the quilting doesn't overwhelm the quilt.
I plan to bind my St. Louis 16 Patch in a variety of strips cut from more Flora fat quarters. I could also pick a solid color to use for binding. Is there a specific color that you think would work for binding?
8 comments:
The peach pink you have in the quilt would look great as binding.
How about Fabulux GIGGLE for the thread color?
I would use maybe rocking horse or Giggle too.
Either Rocking Horse or Blue Heaven!
I could imagine the blue or the rocking horse for quilting and the coral/pink colour in the centre of the ovals would make a nice border.
I like the Rocking Horse thread for quilting, with a light blue binding.
Yes Mam, I've fallen in the Pinterest pit...headed there soon...lol
I vote for rocking horse..your beautiful quilting will show up with whatever thread you use..but I also want to see all the colors in the fabric..so I'd keep the thread more neutral (since you asked)Love the 16 patch, on my list.
Yes Mam, I've fallen in the Pinterest pit...headed there soon...lol
I vote for rocking horse..your beautiful quilting will show up with whatever thread you use..but I also want to see all the colors in the fabric..so I'd keep the thread more neutral (since you asked)Love the 16 patch, on my list.
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