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Fallingwater – Finished

September 6, 2015UncategorizedGrandma, Kona Cotton, Lotta Jansdotter Fabric, Navy, Studio EBrooklyn Quilting Co.

My Fallingwater quilt is done! This quilt uses the River Mist collection from Studio e Fabrics and Lotta Jansdotter’s collection for Jo-Ann Fabric – a perfect navy blue and aqua color combination.

I kept this quilt pretty simple with some basic patchwork squares, but I wanted to switch it up a little with the placement of the squares; the result was a deep V pattern. I think it works pretty well and I like how the lighter aqua fabric falls into the darker blue fabric.

I used up every last bit of fabric for this quilt and pieced together what I had left for the back. I probably spent way too much time thinking about it, but I finally came up with something that I liked.

I’m glad I did spend so much time on the back, because I think I like the back of this quilt more than the front! Has that ever happened to you? Along with the leftover scraps, I used Kona Cotton in Navy to bring it all together.

If you look closely, you might notice a small amount of gold accents in the fabric. I took the gold accents as inspiration for the binding and used a gold polka dot fabric from my stash. After the back, my second favorite part of this quilt is the binding, but I’m a sucker for polka dots, metallic and otherwise.

Like the Butterflies quilt I shared last week, this quilt was photographed at my aunt and uncle’s farm, which used to be my grandparents’ farm. The truck in the pictures belonged to my grandpa. Many years ago it was sold at an auction and has had a couple of different owners since. But my uncle recently tracked it down and bought it back. The truck is now back on the farm and is being used today. Pretty great story, huh?

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday weekend and the only laboring you do is making quilts!

Fallingwater

May 17, 2015UncategorizedBrooklyn, Lotta Jansdotter Fabric, Studio EBrooklyn Quilting Co.

Happy Sunday morning! This morning, I’m sharing my new Fallingwater quilt top. And yes, I’ve borrowed the name from the very famous Frank Lloyd Wright home, also called Fallingwater. Every time I look at this quilt it’s the only name that comes to mind, so I’m sticking with it!

Due to my lack of photography skills, the coloring in this quilt is slightly off. The lighter part is kind of an aqua blue color, but in the photos it looks awfully gray. When I finish quilting it and photograph it then, hopefully I can get that fixed. But in the meantime I wanted to share what I have.

This quilt is made with the River Mist collection from Studio E. I’ve had the fabrics in my stash for over a year and the idea to use them, specifically the blue prints, finally struck.

I also mixed in some of the new Lotta Jansdotter prints from the collection she did with Jo-Ann’s. I’m such a huge Lotta fan that I had to have them. I love the prints and the colors work perfectly mixed with River Mist, but I have to say the fabric is quite thin. I was a little surprised by that because normally when Jo-Ann’s offers a collection with a designer, the fabrics are much better quality than its lower-cost fabrics. For example, I always pick up the Denyse Schmidt collections that arrive at Jo-Ann’s because I’m such a fan of Denyse as well, and I’ve never had a quality problem with her fabrics. So fair warning if you plan to buy the Lotta Jansdotter collection from Jo-Ann’s. Nonetheless, I still love the prints.

The design for his quilt was largely determined by the fabrics. I had more of the lighter color fabrics so they got more real estate in the quilt. However, I wanted to do something more than a simple patchwork design, so I tried to make it interesting with the block layout.

I added another little twist that’s hard to see in the pictures, but the blocks in the lower right corner and upper right corner are scrappy blocks. Again, it adds a little more interest and also uses all of the fabric. No scrap left behind!

Side note about the pictures’ location: I took these pictures at the Boathouse in Prospect Park. If you ever make it to Brooklyn, I highly recommend a swing through Prospect Park. Yes, Central Park is beautiful and amazing and a wonderful place to go if you visit New York. But those of us here in Brooklyn know we have our own gem of green space in Prospect Park, and the area around the Boathouse is especially magical.

Next up I have to finish the back and quilt it. I have a few scraps left that I’ll be sure to use in some kind of scrappy quilt back that I make for this. I also have some larger solid Kona Cotton blues that I might try and use. I’m not quite sure what direction I’ll go with that yet, but stay tuned.

River Mist

March 9, 2014UncategorizedRobert Kaufman, Studio EBrooklyn Quilting Co.

I’ve been meaning to share this fabric for a few weeks now and I am finally getting to it. I’m a little behind on this one.

For Valentine’s Day, I received these pretty packages in the mail from my mom.

They came a few days before Valentine’s Day but I patiently waited to open them, even though I suspected one package had fabric in it. That’s right. I don’t need flowers and chocolates for Valentine’s Day; I’ll take fabric. And fabric it was! My mom knows me well.

It is Studio E’s River Mist collection. Don’t you like that name?

I’m such a blue person and these fabrics are so pretty. I think these two are my favorite:

There is one fat quarter in there that is not part of the collection. It is that beige colored fabric and is a Robert Kaufman piece. Even though it’s not part of the collection I think it blends in well with the other pieces.

Since I’m in the process of working on a blue quilt right now, I think I’m going to put these fat quarters away for a while and save them for a later date. In the meantime I can be thinking about how I will use them. Happy Sunday!