My challenge with this quilt was working with what I had at home.
At some point I was gifted a pack of 5" squares of ombre fabrics. The ombre fabrics were so beautiful I didn't want to lose the impact from the colors and the gradations. So I worked out a design that kept the full size of the ombre squares and then I added a window pane effect around each color block. The white and gray fabrics were both leftover from recent projects.
The Fabrics are Ombre by Boundless Fabrics for Craftsy, various whites from my stash, gray fabrics are from the Wilmington Opel collection.
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My next challenge was the quilting. I started by sandwiching the layers together using the pool noodle technique (see recent blog posts) and then stitching in the ditch along both sides of all the gray strips. This stabilized the quilt and made it easier to work on each square without the whole piece shifting. Quilting on the gray fabrics is a meandering in a small scale (gray thread), quilting on the white fabrics is a bubble/circle design (white thread) and quilting on the colored squares is straight lines in a sunburst design (6 different colors one to match the squares in each row).
All the quilting was done on my domestic machine and I love the pop it has.
The quilt finishes at 43' X 52" and I'm planning on gifting it as a baby quilt. It's a bit over sized but will be nice to toss on the floor or over furniture for baby.
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