Monday, February 8, 2016

Modern Stripes

I was the lucky winner of this gorgeous bundle of Cloud 9 Organice Solids at a VMQG meeting last year:

Modern Stripes in progress

I had this FQ bundle for a long time before the right design came to mind. As much as possible, I kept the different values of the various colours together and pieced them into strip sets of varying sizes:

Modern Stripes in progress

Friends, I love this quilt. LOVE. IT. The fabrics are so lovely. So soft with a really nice hand. Highly recommended.

Modern Stripes

It's about 60x72 so I quilted it on the longarm with a clamshell design that goes side to side. I switched it up with a slightly different clamshell when I remembered.


Modern Stripes quilting

The back is two different Kona Greys (Charcoal and Medium Grey) plus a bit of a leftover strip set that I cross-cut and pieced in a little checkerboard just because. This shows the nice magenta binding to its best advantage. 

Modern Stripes back

It's a Finish Along finish too. This one's staying with me!

2016 FAL

10 comments:

  1. Love the design you chose! I can see why you're hanging on to this one. Congrats on the finish!

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  2. Beautiful! And I love your clamshell quilting on it!

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  3. Oh yeah! What a perfect design for those colours!!

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  4. What a gorgeous quilt. Simple is often the most effective :)

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  5. This quilt just speaks to me. It is minimalist yet with no negative space, and it is interesting with such a simple design. I love the quilting too, a great addition. I am in love!

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  6. It finished up beautifully Felicity! Just gorgeous!

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  7. I love everything about this quilt.

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  8. Awesome--so simple, yet so eye-catching! I'm glad this one's a keeper--it's just fantastic!

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