This is my 2nd attempt at this quilt from Ashley's tutorial. My first was for my niece, Kaitlin, for her 14th birthday and it was a huge hit! This one is for my niece, Christine, for her high-school graduation present. Kaitlin lives in Virginia and Christine in Kansas ... so I figured it would be OK to make them the same quilt pattern ... this is such a fun quilt and I believe perfect for a teenage girl (particularly two who live far away and you don't know their favorite colors and all).
The weather didn't cooperate this weekend for the photo shoot, but here's some I snuck in between rain showers:
I busted the scrap bin wide open with this effort.
I am finding that I really like the result of a tighter meandering quilt ... since I don't pre-wash, the tighter quilting coupled with a hot wash and dry really creates the krinkly feel that I like so much and just can't seem to achieve with the broader spaced quilting. Maybe someday when I have a machine with a walking foot my tune may change ;-).
What's a photo shoot at the cabin without a little view thrown in? That's Hood Canal, the only Fjord in the lower 48 states.
I'm not thrilled with how the back came out. I tried to reverse out the pattern from the front and similar to my lattice quilt. In the end, the strips were too narrow and the space to vast and it looks like someone drew on the quilt with pens ... oh well, lesson learned. It didn't ruin it, but it also didn't add anything.
The quilt by the numbers ... it started as 64" x 48" and ended at 61" x 46". The front is comprised of everything, I used Paula Prass Red Cobblestone for the binding, and the back is a combination of Kona Ice Frappe and (because I only ordered 2 yds of the Kona) a little Country Classics Spray green from JoAnns.
I love the craziness of the front of this quilt ... it always makes me smile. Thanks Ashley ... for bringing a fresh view to the string quilt via Kaleidoscope.
I have visions of this sitting at the end of the bed in Christine's dorm next year ... I hope she gets the same vision.
Hope you all had a fabulous weekend.
All the best
Lisa