Oceanic Supernova

So many thanks go to Lee at Freshly Pieced for sharing her wonderful pattern Supernova via a quilt along. I had a blast watching this quilt come together, and I am absolutely thrilled with the result.

And so, without further ado, I present to you Oceanic Supernova:

I elected to follow one of Lee's many helpful suggested quilting strategies (which she generously mocked up for us), and quilted ¼" outside the main pieced lines in the pattern. This quilt is staying with us (yay!) and my husband prefers less quilting to more. Fine with (lazy) me!! I used a 30wt thread by Aurifil in a light blue, and it worked beautifully, in my opinion. Just enough contrast against the white background, as well as the various colours of the quilt.

Here, you can see the colour of the thread a little better:

And here is the back:

It's pieced together fairly randomly using the larger scraps from the quilt top - which started as a Fat Quarter bundle of Kona Solids called Poseidon - together with some yardage of Kona Caribbean (the big blocks of blue/green) and some strips of the Giant Octopi print I used for the centre square of the centre block on the front. I loosely followed Kati's Slash and Sew method, and I've got a process post about that in the works. I quite like the final product!

For now, though, I am delighted that I kept up with this quilt along and finished in time to be eligible to win a FQ bundle of Castle Peeps! Next up on the list is my Kona Charm Challenge for which I have both a plan AND (now) an opening in my schedule. Hooray!

This is a big finish for me, so those of you who join up to {Sew} Modern Mondays, Fabric Tuesday and WIP Wednesday are gonna be seeing a lot of Oceanic Supernova!