My first quilt is now complete; a mini quilt that was originally for our quilt guild Madrona Road Challenge!!! I decided that it is, also perfect timing to take advantage of the Bloggers Quilt Festival, and live the experience first hand.
As mentioned in my previous blog, the center block designs stemmed from tiles pictured in a recent dwell magazine. The overall design was influenced by this Portuguese tiled bath floor:
I loved the blue framing of the black and white tiled bottom of the bath (at least what looks like a bath). So taking that concept I came up with this quilt top using the madrona road fabric and a lot of blue kona cottons, and a splash of yellow and a single crimson tile.
I machine bound my quilt in navy. I love how the darker edge makes the rest of the quilt pop and also pulls out the darker blue prints.
The backing consists of navy blue kona cotton, with a stripe of Madrona road blocks and a stripe of ash grey and yellow solids. The stripes were made from scrapes left over from the front and I improvised the piecing.
I kept the quilting relatively simple. To highlight the blocks, I used yellow cotton for the edge and diagonals of this section (see above the details). I then used light grey cotton to quilt rectangles from the center to the diagonals in a web like radiating pattern. The blue tile framed edges I just used lines to highlight the rows – again in light grey cotton.
I love the crinkly look of the quilt after it was washed and dried. Here are some more summary details:
Finished size: ~33″ x 28″
Pattern: Improvised and designed by me
Fabric: Madrona Road (7 fat eighths), Kona Cotton blues, ash grey, crimson and gold
Binding: Machine sewn
Quilting: Simple lines, created with my walking foot on my brother sewing machine
I hope to add new photos once it stops raining here :-).
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Yay! This is beautiful. Love the navy, the text blocks, and that delicious purple mixed in. Such a wonderful finish! Congrats!
Thank you :-)…The navy was perfect, I love it
Neat!! Great translation from your inspiration to fabric!
Thank you
There are so many pieces, parts and patterns. Yet there is something so beautiful and calming and fun about it. I like all the blues around the edges and especially like the way you used the chevron fabric in the star part. I also like the quilting. Great job!
Thanks, the star block was one of my favorite 🙂
congratulations! It looks great, I’m totally impressed!
Thanks – I still need to stop by….which actually should be today.
amazing and you say its your first quilt?? wish mine were half as good as yours totally awesomexx
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Congratulations!! I definitely see the inspiration photo in your finished quilt. Your little red “tile” is so great. I also really like the spiderweb quilting, especially on the back. Well done!
Thank you. Now onto finishing the 4 seasons quilt. Hopefully soon 🙂
What a great inspiration and what a beautiful quilt. Well done! It’s so so pretty and special.
Thank you 🙂
Such a cool interpretation! Looks great.
Thank you 🙂
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