I am so excited to finally share this quilt! It seems I have been working on it for eons...or 6 months or so. While I usually do have a few projects going at the same time, its really unlike me to leave a WIP sitting around for this long before finishing it. Its been giving me the evil eye lately, likely feeling neglected, so I decided before I started anything new, I'd give this little guy some TLC.
This quilt was made with lots of help from the lovely ladies of the Imagine circle of do. Good Stitches. My first round to be the quilter was back in March, and I asked the ladies to use Badskirt Amy's Japanese x and + block tutorial, and upsized the blocks so that they finished a little larger. More on the measurements I used here.
I could not be happier with how this quilt has come together, its my favorite kind, nice and super scrappy. This quilt is headed to the charity Threading Hope, which gives quilts to kids in underprivileged countries. If this quilt weren't be donated to such a great cause, they may have to pry it from my hands, I like it so much!
As for the quilting, I decided to try something new (to me anyways) that I had seen on one of Lee's quilts way back when and just never got around to trying. I used one of the decorative wavy stitches on my machine, and set the width and length to the widest settings and used my walking foot to quilt along the width of the quilt. I sort of used the seams as my guides to keep the lines straight and spaced my lines about an inch or so apart.
I usually don't wash my quilts before photographing them because I find I get better pictures of all the quilt detail pre-washing, but I thought the scrappiness of this quilt, and the wavy quilting was just begging to be all snuggly and crinkled. I'm super happy I washed this one before snapping pics, because the crinkled goodness really does add to this quilt.
This quilt will be off to its new home I believe in Indonesia this week, hopefully its new owner loves it as much as I do!
Quilt Stats
Name: do. Good Stitches Scrappy Japanese x and + quilt
Pattern: upsized Japanese x and + blocks
Size: 55" x 66"
Fabric: Scrappy assorted fabrics
Quilting: Quilted using wavy decorative stitch by me on my home machine
Oh my goodness, Jessica! This turned out so great! I love your choice of quilting. It looks so snuggly like that. Excellent job!
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! So much! I'd have trouble parting with it too!
ReplyDeleteoh it is excellent! I love the blocks supersized!
ReplyDeleteAmazing quilt Jessica! I really love the larger block.
ReplyDeleteIt's a stunning, downright happy, quilt. Good for you to be so generous as to give it away! You're doing what quilters do best: sharing with others. Thank you! You make us all very proud.
ReplyDeleteWhat a cheerful quilt, Jess!
ReplyDeleteSo bright and happy, and I really like your serpentine stitch quilting. Should really try that one day, my machine has a stitch like that too. A little break from the straight lines that I usually do!
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt! The colors are beautiful!
ReplyDeleteit's so lovely! I was thinking since a long time to do also a Japanese x-quilt and maybe it will be the december quilt of the happiness circle of do. good stiches ;))
ReplyDeletegreat work ladies!
So beautiful! I love seeing do good quilts come together!
ReplyDeleteWOW! Awesome!
ReplyDeleteAmazing. BTW one of you pictures are missing. I hate when that happens to me so I thought I would let you know :)
ReplyDeleteWow! This quilt is so gorgeous! I love the bright colors and the pattern is so pretty. Very nice!
ReplyDeleteIt looks fab, love all the colours! When I was getting the lesson that came with my sewing machine, the lady was trying to persuade me to try some of the decorative stitches for quilting, who knew she was onto something? ;o)
ReplyDeletesuper lovely and I'm in love with the binding, I have some black and white stripe just waiting to use for my next quilt binding like that
ReplyDeleteWhat a riot of color! Love it.
ReplyDeleteHow wonderful that some child will receive this quilt! It's gorgeous!!! I love the colors and I'm sure that child will too!!!
ReplyDeleteIt turned out SUPER DUPER Awesome!!! I hope the one I am in charge of lives up to this one!!!!
ReplyDeleteLooking good (even if the first photo wouldn't show on my iPad)!
ReplyDeleteThis looks awesome! :-) I love it!
ReplyDeleteAh, I found the post ! I asked some questions on Flickr, but I think that they will be answered if I click the link about block details. So absolutely scrumptious.......you are a strong person to be able to let go of it .....but for such a good cause- kudos !
ReplyDeleteWow! You are a better person than me. I don't think I could have given this away. It's beautiful! I love the quilting too; I'm going to try the wavy lines in my next quilt!
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