Monday, February 17, 2014

First Quilt Finish of 2014: Up Up and Away

Members of the Modern Quilt Guild received fabrics from Riley Blake's Basics collection for a challenge and Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild participated - yay!


I quite liked the set of fabrics we were given, and I was hoping to combine this challenge with my goal of making each of my nieces/nephews a quilt this year, so that drove the size of my project as well as my choice of fabric to add.

I've been wanting to do something with triangles for a while, and I decided this was the time. After a successful test run with this pillow cover project, I was all set.

First, I cut the triangles and the smaller side triangles using my Tri-Recs ruler, and pieced them into two long strips using Kona Nautical Blue as my solid:


Then I added more strips of solids:

I cut the solid strips on the lengthwise grain, parallel to the selvage. That way, I didn't have to piece them.

RB Challenge detail

For the quilting, I turned to my Aurifil stash, of course! First, I quilted some wavy lines the length of the quilt using my walking foot and some 28 weight thread in a very, very dark blue (2785). I love the texture it created. Then, around the triangles, I did some loopy loops in a dark grey 50-weight (5004).

RB Challenge Quilting

The binding used the leftover bits of fabric and solid. The finished pre-washed size is about 50" x 78". All in all, I am really pleased with this finish! And it's another one of my Q1 FAL projects - on a roll, baby!

RB Challenge full frontal


Finish Along 2014

11 comments:

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  2. first time visit for and I like it, will be back for. I am a quilt junkie!!!

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  3. Beautiful!! love all the 'white' space, really makes the fabrics pop.

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  4. This is a really fun and clever way to use the fabrics!

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  5. Beautiful quilt! Congrats on the finish!

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  6. I really love this quilt and it is hard to get a sense of scale from the pictures until you posted the size. Those must be nice big triangles I am guessing.

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  7. This quilt is so modern!

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  8. Love it!!! Where was it last night? Saving for the big reveal next month?

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  9. Great job with the challenge, Felicity! Very striking design!

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  10. Cute! I love the larger triangles and the fact that you can see the prints! Great work!

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