It has been a while since I have posted on the blog; family commitments and holidays have kept me busy! In my efforts to regain some blogging normality I thought I would share with you a quilt that I made sometime ago. It’s a Tessellated Pinwheel quilt that I made for my daughter Amy!
Making this quilt was certainly an experience and a great learning curve for me! This was my first machine pieced quilt! I had hand sewn five quilts previously and hand quilted three of them! I knew I had to improve my machine piecing skills and this was my time! I generally love bold and colourful fabrics but my daughter wanted a soft quilt with a little navy! It was a struggle at the start to make the quilt because the colour choices were out of my normal scope. As it turned out I absolutely love this quilt! Now it would be so much in vogue because of the low volume feel!
This pic shows a close up of the pinwheels! The fabrics are a mix of tone on tone creams and beige with a splash of navy! The similarity of the colours does not define the tessellations easily but it does add to the softness of the quilt. The navy pinwheels certainly play an important role in adding depth to the quilt.
I love the borders on this quilt! On point squares, in tone on tone fabrics, frame the pinwheels followed with a navy strip and a navy chevron border. The final border is cream pinwheels on a beige back ground. In this instance, the borders are definitely important to frame the quilt and break up the tessellated pinwheels. This pic also shows the long arm quilting of circles and love hearts!
She chose a French themed backing because she just returned from Paris where she was living for six months.
I finished the quilt with a beautiful navy binding. I do love a spotty binding. It faithfully rests on Amy’s bed and it gets used and loved. It is a beautiful feeling when your hand made labours are really appreciated. What more could I ask for!
As you will know I am a great supporter of linky parties. They help us find out the creative delights that are happening around the globe and they also help us to make new friends. I would like to highlight the monthly linky party that Fiona @ Celtic Thistle is hosting with Paula @ Mud, Pies and Pins! The focus of this linky is to promote making gifts for the holiday season through out the year! Check out the February Ho Ho Ho & On We Sew here!
I am supporting the weekly linky parties NTT @ My Quilt Infatuation, Whoop Whoop @ Confessions of a Fabric Addict , TGIFF @ Amy’s Crafty Shenanigans and Finish It Up Friday @ Crazy Mom Quilts!
As always, many thanks for stopping by and wherever you in the world have a fabulous weekend!!
Sew Happy……………Marie xxx
Love the dots!
This quilt is a beauty, contrast with the blue really pops. Pin wheels are one of my favourite blocks. Never sewn a quilt by hand but do enjoy quilting by hand. and have yet to machine quilt one. Have you your own long arm quilter or just access to one, lucky you
I really love this quilt, especially the backing. Gorgeous.
This is beautiful, can I pin it for inspiration!
Pretty quilt and I love the binding 🙂
Marie, this is a seriously beautiful quilt. As soon as I saw it I thought it had a French look – they are experts at achieving a very chic look with navy blue, and you have cracked it in one go. The fact that you have used cream rather than white keeps the overall look restrained and totally perfect. Fantastic work, and all credit to your daughter for her contibution with the choice of colours.
Love from England,
Muv
Love everything about this quilt! Beautifully done!
Lovely quilt. I love how the navy pinwheels really pop. Great finish!
I just love love this Marie. The colours you have chosen are gorgeous – so calming. Makes me want to just sit and look at it all day 🙂
I love the dotty binding too. Really the whole thing is beautiful.
Beautiful, Marie! I love the subtle colours of the background. So glad you linked up to TGIFF!
Beautiful quilt. I love the binding and the mixed neutrals. I am sure your daughter will cherish this for years to come.
such a beautiful quilt!!! i love the softness of it and the pop of color with the navy pinwheels with the tone on tone and cream silently echoing. the backing and quilting are so pretty as well!! great job!!
this is such a pretty quilt, Marie! The contrast of the fabrics is fantastic. Yay for you tackling your first machine pieced quilt!
I’m so glad you shared at Needle and Thread Thursday!
🙂 Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation
Great quilt Marie! I especially love your dotty binding 🙂
Wonderful quilt! Thank you for linking up your finish!
I love this quilt. Great work!
the cream and blue are so rich! dreamy quilt!
This is so unique. I love it. I’d like to make one in a different colorwave. Could you share the name of the pattern? Thanks!
Hi Bonny the pattern is called Winding Ways! I used acrylic templates by Elizabeth Wallace! Hope that helps! Marie x