Sunday, September 28, 2014

Orange You Glad It's Finished?

Well I sure am!  The Vertical Chevron Quilt is finally finished. This quilt will be a crib quilt for a special addition coming later this fall/early winter. It measures right around 32x48.


The last time I mentioned this quilt it had been quilted and I was awaiting a binding selection. We decided on the Stitched Road Granite by Art Gallery - what a great binding this made!


This quilt is made up of fabrics from my stash. Since teal is one of my favorite colors and I am always drawn to teals when just browsing I had ample teals. I did have to purchase most of the bright orange fabrics as I didn't have many of my own although I knew I wanted to take a look at a few fabrics by Lily Ashbury, she has amazing selections when looking for fabrics saturated in colors especially pinks, orange and greens. The white paisley on orange is one of her fabrics from the Folklore line which I adore! I headed down to my lqs and found some great Botanics in tangerine that went great with this quilt as well.

This particular crib quilt was straight line quilted and lined with a super soft minky dot backing in Charcoal. Thankfully I did not experience the minky pulling through to the white front fabrics this time around! Remember the dog quilt with they navy minky - I'd be lying if I said I wasn't nervous. Thankfully everything worked out just as it is supposed to.


Perfect for a winter baby! Since I enjoyed working with these fabrics so much and had a few scraps leftover, I went ahead and made a coordinating pillow using the fabrics from the quilt top. This pillow was featured at Quilt Story: Fabric Tuesday!!!


If you guessed this pillow had an invisible zipper you would be right on. Honestly I will use every opportunity to practice the invisible zipper! The backing of this pillow is coordinating charcoal minky dot. The pillow is a bit of a surprise so I hope it will go over well.


This was the first 60 degree triangle quilt I've done. This pillow was small - only 16 inch square. The triangles were '3 inch finished' - I'm still not really sure what that refers to but I saw it on the ruler I was using. I'm thinking it must be the horizontal top (or bottom) of the triangle as my math was way off and I ended up needing way more rows both horizontally and vertically to make up a usable pillow sham. I did straight line quilting across all the seams, which is a look I really like on this type of quilt.


Don't mind the lumps - I don't have a 16 inch pillow insert so its just some folded up towels in there!

Link Parti's 

Take a look at the linki parti's I get down with here or by clicking on the Linki Parti's link above. Linking up to Stitch by Stitch, Quilt Story My Quilt InfatuationRichard and Tanya Quilts, Whoop Whoop FridayQuokka Quilts and crazy mom quilts 

Best,
Heather

15 comments:

  1. Hi Heather! This is beautiful quilt - wonderful colours and great simple pattern! I love to have matching pillow with the quilt! x Teje

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  2. I love both of these items and this color combination. Thanks for the inspiration. I believe the triangle size is the measurement from the top point to the center bottom, but don't quote me on that!

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  3. That looks so cozy and the colours are perfect together. I made a equilateral triangle quilt with a pretty similar colour combination, they just work awesome together! And teal rocks!!

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  4. I am in love with the quilt! You did an amazing job, better than I could have asked for. The pillow is beautiful and a great surprise! I can't wait to get it in the mail! Thank you for the amazing work and eye for detail and perfection. I am sure it will be in the family for years to come!

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  5. Love that the teal got to appear twice! Great pillow to go with it!

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  6. Love the chevron quilt and that minky back is so yummy! What a great finish.

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  7. I love the quilt and the coordinating pillow is awesome! I'm sure it will be loved and appreciated.

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  8. The quilt is so fun and I absolutely love your pillow!!! Thanks for sharing!

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  9. I love the orientation of the chevrons and the colors here! I've been obsessed with teal lately. I just scored a bunch of teal and aqua fabrics at Sew Fresh Fabrics. Heads up: they're closing shop and everything is 30% off ... in case you need to replenish your teal fabric stash. : )

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  10. What a beautiful baby quilt! And I love that pillow! Great job!

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  11. So adorable! Love the zig zag design! The pillow is fantastic!

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  12. Hi! Hopped over from NNT. Love this quilt! Crushing on the teal/orange combos right now. The minky on the back looks beautiful! Great finish!

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  13. What a beautiful set - the colour scheme is gorgeous - well done!

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  14. LOVE this! I love the colors you chose, and that pillow is delightful! Especially with that minky - yum!

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  15. I saw your cushion on the Quilt Story blog and just wanted to tell you how much I love the colours. They look great in the quilt, too :)

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