Someone asked me recently how many quilts I have made. I had a guess, maybe thirty? Except when I started tallying them up I realised that there was a whole lot more than thirty!!! I decided I would work my way backwards in order photographing them all so I'd have a record of all of my work.
So here we have the Scandi Tray Quilt. I finished this one last week. The fabric line is by a designer called Lotta Jansdotter and as soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I had this picture;
pinned on my pinboard for ages. Its a tray designed by Maria Dahlgren and I love the pattern and colours. Using the picture I worked out a pattern using 4 inch squares and half square triangles. I partnered the prints with solid colours from my stash to calm the busyness of all those angles and patterns.
I had a really strong idea of what I wanted to achieve, but I had quite a few wobbles on this as it progressed. I wasn't sure about the darker greys and browns and even considered ripping them out, but as is often the way I feel now that the contrasts are what makes the design work. You often have to work against the brains natural desire to make things 'matchy matchy'!
I quilted it in a simple grid pattern. I actually machine quilted this quilt, it's only the second I have. I am a total hand quilt devotee and I'm not delighted with the machine quilting, but the graphic straight lines lent themselves to machine accuracy, it's good to experiment at least!
I backed the quilt in this lovely wobbly pint from the same line. One width of fabric was too narrow so I added two strips with a splash of yellow. I'm loving the sunny yellow against the cloud grey - kind of like he mad weather at the moment!!
So here we have the Scandi Tray Quilt. I finished this one last week. The fabric line is by a designer called Lotta Jansdotter and as soon as I saw it I knew exactly what I wanted to do with it. I had this picture;
pinned on my pinboard for ages. Its a tray designed by Maria Dahlgren and I love the pattern and colours. Using the picture I worked out a pattern using 4 inch squares and half square triangles. I partnered the prints with solid colours from my stash to calm the busyness of all those angles and patterns.
I had a really strong idea of what I wanted to achieve, but I had quite a few wobbles on this as it progressed. I wasn't sure about the darker greys and browns and even considered ripping them out, but as is often the way I feel now that the contrasts are what makes the design work. You often have to work against the brains natural desire to make things 'matchy matchy'!
I quilted it in a simple grid pattern. I actually machine quilted this quilt, it's only the second I have. I am a total hand quilt devotee and I'm not delighted with the machine quilting, but the graphic straight lines lent themselves to machine accuracy, it's good to experiment at least!I backed the quilt in this lovely wobbly pint from the same line. One width of fabric was too narrow so I added two strips with a splash of yellow. I'm loving the sunny yellow against the cloud grey - kind of like he mad weather at the moment!!
