I have finally finished the jelly roll quilt in time for Katie to move in tomorrow - she has a quilt I made for her in black and red that she may prefer to use, but long term I wanted to make something bright and cheery for the spare room. I had no idea when I started out at how dense my quilting was going to turn out to be on this quilt. It is amazing the amount of thread I have used.
It is a bit dark but you can see what I mean about density! The white squares are quilted with a bubble spiral in a square and then pebbled around. The plain fabric on the hourglass blocks are always quilted with a wormhole pattern and patterned fabric according to the pattern on the print. On the yellow stars a diamond lattice
on the lilac dots a zigzag, for example.
As the design was set on point there were the fill in triangles around the edges which I used a flame flower design
I love this - it is close to being my favourite bit of the quilt.I think my fave bit though is the borders, by the time I had got to these I was well into free motion quilting and let myself go!
I had great fun with this! So the final thing_
I have yet to make pillow cases to match but they have now joined the UFO list - I have some strips to appliqué on to white cases to tie them together.
On the whole I feel this is one of my favourite things that I have made. It is not perfect - there are pleats and puckers on the back and the front - I pinned rather than basted this ( which I normally do) and I was hampered by being unable to lay the backing, batting and top out anywhere flat. Nowhere in my house has that much floor space. The binding is wonky and some of the quilting escapes the set areas - I don't care! It is mine from start to finish and I love it. The child like feel to the quilting and the modern textures give it is fun look. Many thanks to Judy for pointing me to Leah Day on You tube. I have watched so many tutorials and learnt so much, that I want the next one to start already! Time for some hot jazz but I need to save up my pocket money to buy supplies first. And I need to concentrate on my Christmas knitting and sewing. That's all folks!
gee thanks
