Wonky Pods - the lap quilt edition

Another quilt made using my newly released Wonky Pods pattern, this time I used a strip piecing technique to create random/crazy pieced blocks without borders, and substituted these for the wonky cut pattern blocks.  The quilt finishes up at about 56" x 57" so is a great lap/throw size.  It uses a mixture of prints from my stash - Botanics,  Mormor, Alison glass text prints ... and a few others.  I find when creating crazy pieced blocks it's good to have at least 10 fabrics - preferably more.

I FMQed it in an all-over meandering, I love the texture and how it crinkles after washing, this is definitely my current go-to quilting style.

It is backed with a vintage sheet.

If you're interested in making one of my patterns, they are all currently marked down 25% to celebrate the release of my Wonky Pods pattern and I Spy a Charm pattern.

Quilt Stats
Finished Size: approx 57" by 56"
Pattern:  "Wonky Pods" (available in my Craftsy store) 
Fabric: Various.   Background fabric is Kona Snow. 
Backing: Vintage sheet.

Binding: Fanfare (from Spotlight)

Pieced and quilted by: me

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Vintage Improv - a lap quilt

 

All fabrics in this quilt are re-purposed vintage bed linen - either sheets or pillowcases I've found in op shops around the country.  I wanted to make a quilt similar to Candy Coated from Sunday Morning Quilts (the quilt on the cover), but while cutting out the first few strips I thought maybe I'd add a couple of random bits of interest in there - the flying geese, a star, and also make a feature of one of the prints.  The feature print didn't really have the effect I wanted, but the star and geese certainly did.  There are 11 different prints in total - 9 are used for the strips, 1 is used only for the geese and star, and 1 is used only on the back.

I'm really all about improv, I struggle to follow a pattern to the letter, and indeed I didn't really get past the photo or first couple of lines of the cutting instructions for Candy Coated before deciding to just make it up as I went along.  Quilting books and patterns are mostly just springboards for me, inspiration for creating something similar but different, or maybe not even similar but inspired by. 

I quilted it in an all-over meander, it's been a while since I did anything other than an all-over meander.  A few minutes into the quilting I decided it wasn't the best decision for this quilt at all, but carried on because I couldn't be bothered unpicking.  I'm used to meandering over vast amounts of negative space, and I found it difficult to actually see where I had quilted, and where I needed to go, because of all the busyness of the prints.

For the binding I used one of the sheets, a white with itty bitty flowers scattered over it, so it reads quite like a solid. 

This quilt is a gift, but won't be gifted for a couple of months, so it is going to lounge around my studio for a while, which I find immensely valuable because I get to look at it and think and ponder.

Quilt Stats - Vintage Improv
Finished Size: approx 50" by 57"
Fabric (including backing and binding): Vintage bed linen - 11 different sheets or pillowcases.

Pieced and quilted by: me

Favourite part: That it is a break from my usual style (there are NO solids in this!!) and was very cheap to make (everything from stash)

Have you ever made a quilt from vintage bed linen?  How did it turn out?

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Two new patterns available!!

Exciting news - I have two new patterns available in my Craftsy store and to celebrate all my patterns will be marked down for two weeks. The two new releases are "I Spy a Charm", which you can read about here, and "Wonky Pods', which you can read about here.

"I Spy a Charm" makes a fantastic I Spy quilt for a kid's bed, the introductory price is $4.50, this will normally retail for $6, so that's a saving of 25%!!

"Wonky Pods" is a multi-size pattern, with generous amounts of negative space that's just crying out for some FMQ practice!  This pattern is perfect for those who love the look of floating blocks but don't want to do all the thinking involved in working it all out.   "Wonky Pods" will normally retail for $8 but is on sale for the next two weeks for $6, so snap it up fast and you'll save yourself 25%!

And just so she doesn't feel left out, "On Nanny's Lap" is also on sale for two weeks!!