My nephew recently* got married and I made him a wedding quilt of his bride's choosing. The bride chose my Fenced In Cutie Pattern, queen sized, in neutral cool colors.
The original Fenced In pattern makes a smaller quilt, but I doubled everything and added enough border to make it fit their bed. Fortunately, it was easy math!
I will admit that when the bride said "neutral, cool colors" I was stumped for a while. Then I remembered my Be Cool FabuLux thread:
What could be more neutral or cool than this turquoise, light lime, and gray thread? I took the thread to the Quilt Basket and picked out some American Made Brand solid fabrics to match the thread:
Anyone who knows me knows that I love ribbon candy quilting. This quilt SCREAMED for ribbon candy quilting but I wanted to keep this quilt neutral and calming so I quilted a simple swirl all over. The Be Cool thread looked great on this quilt!
The bride isn't a quilter but one of her first comments was "Does this thread change colors? I've never seen that before. How cool!" Dear Nephew, keep this woman!!!
This is the result:
The original Fenced In pattern makes a smaller quilt, but I doubled everything and added enough border to make it fit their bed. Fortunately, it was easy math!
I will admit that when the bride said "neutral, cool colors" I was stumped for a while. Then I remembered my Be Cool FabuLux thread:
What could be more neutral or cool than this turquoise, light lime, and gray thread? I took the thread to the Quilt Basket and picked out some American Made Brand solid fabrics to match the thread:
Anyone who knows me knows that I love ribbon candy quilting. This quilt SCREAMED for ribbon candy quilting but I wanted to keep this quilt neutral and calming so I quilted a simple swirl all over. The Be Cool thread looked great on this quilt!
___________
*By recently I mean about 14 months ago. Don't judge me.
2 comments:
The pattern is so even. Is it all free motion?
Cool result!
Post a Comment