After months of barely leaving my neighborhood, trying to stay home and stay safe, I am slowly entering back into the real world, although the real world looks quite different and certainly feels different than pre-coronavirus.  And I imagine that feeling will continue until we get a vaccine, but it’s good to have some things, like quilt photos, back on.

And on that note, here is one of my quarantine quilt finishes.

This quilt is made with the Fantasy collection from Sally Kelly, with some Artisan Cottons from Windham mixed in.

I’m very pleased with the final quilt.  The pattern, the colors…everything works for me.

I pulled one of the fabrics from the Fantasy collection and used that for the back.

Typically, I like to use a different fabric for the back of my quilts than one that I used on the front, but when Sally Kelly designed this collection she offered a handful of the prints in cotton lawn, and I thought one of those would be nice to use for the back.

I really like the lightweight feel of cotton lawn, and when you have a larger-sized quilt like this one is, I think sometimes it’s nice to use a lighter-weight fabric, like a cotton lawn, for the back.

This quilt has now found a home draped across my bed.  I’ll have to take a picture of how I styled it in my bedroom with my duvet cover.  Keep your eyes peeled on my Instagram account for that.  Until then, WEAR A MASK.

Continuing with my year of making vintage-inspired quilts, I present my latest called Fantasy, named for the Fantasy fabric used in it.

Fantasy is a new collection from designer Sally Kelly and starts shipping next month.  (You might want to add it you your fabric wish list.)  Windham was nice enough to send me some fabric this summer to try out and I’m completely sold on the collection.

The use of color immediately caught my attention, and mixed with the different patterns and it’s right up my alley.

It didn’t take long to decide on a quilt pattern once I saw the fabric.  I’ve had my eye on it for a while and was just waiting for the right fabric to take it on.  I’m not sure what the name of this pattern is but I’ve seen it a couple of places.  Can anyone help?

Fantasy is perfect for this quilt pattern because it has a small-scale print that works well for cutting smaller pieces like the ones used here.  You can cut it up without losing the overall effect of fabric.

To break up the busyness of the fabric and add interest to the blocks, I mixed in some of Windham’s Artisan Cotton solids.  Windham recently added new colors to their Artisan Cotton line and many of them coordinate perfectly with Fantasy.

If you look at the blocks, you’ll see there’s no rhyme or reason for the fabric layout.  This is done on purpose to make it look a bit scrappy, although it’s not scrappy so maybe that’s not the right word.  I guess what I’m saying is that I didn’t want the quilt to be too uniform so I mixed each block up.  The only constant is the red center pieces.  There’s also red triangles mixed throughout the quilt that really stand out because of their dark color, but again, the red triangles mixed throughout are random.

I love how this quilt turned out.  It’s pretty much how I envisioned it in my head, which sometimes happens and sometimes doesn’t!

The only downside is that it requires a lot of cutting and sewing, but when you see the finished product it’s all worth it.