Blogger's Quilt Festival: Spring 2015
Welcome to the Spring 2015 edition of the Blogger's Quilt Festival! It's the perfect time to showcase a favorite quilt, and best of all no sewing on pesky quilt sleeves is required!
This time around I am sharing the flying geese quilt I made for my son's college graduation quilt. As soon as Carolyn Friedlander's Doe fabric was released, I bought every print in every color way with a quilt for my son in mind. I eventually went with flying geese as it seems appropriate for this milestone. I have to say though, family members (the nonquilty ones) were confused as they didn't see any geese pictures in the quilt;-)!
While most of the fabric in this quilt is from Carolyn's Doe line, there are also fabrics from her Architextures and Botanics lines. The binding is a ledger print and the backing is the wideback widescreen in black.
{{How cool that the fabric for his Florida State University graduation quilt is designed by Carolyn who is a Florida local?}}
I cut all the flying geese blocks with my AccuQuilt Go! This was a huge time saver.
After playing around with various design ideas, I went with a basic alternating columns of geese going up and then back down. I originally wanted something more unplanned if you will, but in the end it just looked a mess.
I pin basted the quilt on my wall. Has anyone ever tried that? This was a first for me, and I really liked the method. If anyone is interested I could do a more detailed post later.
I used my walking foot and Aurifil #2846 40wt to quilt organic lines going down the quilt. Matchstick quilting was my first choice, but as I was determined to bring this quilt with me to graduation, the lines were spaced a bit further apart ;-)
Quilt stats:
Name: Soar
Pattern: Flying Geese block
Finished Size: 54"x 72"
Fabric: Carolyn Friedlander Doe, Architextures, Botanics; binding Architextures Ledger print; backing Black Widescreen
Quilting: Organic lines with my walking foot; Aurifil #2836 40wt for quilting; Aurifil #2021 50wt for hand stitching binding
"Soar" flying geese quilt |
This ledger print is one of my all time favorite fabrics. |
{{How cool that the fabric for his Florida State University graduation quilt is designed by Carolyn who is a Florida local?}}
Accuquilt for cutting |
wall basting |
I pin basted the quilt on my wall. Has anyone ever tried that? This was a first for me, and I really liked the method. If anyone is interested I could do a more detailed post later.
The quilt needs to be in the picture too?! |
Photo shoot on campus |
Name: Soar
Pattern: Flying Geese block
Finished Size: 54"x 72"
Fabric: Carolyn Friedlander Doe, Architextures, Botanics; binding Architextures Ledger print; backing Black Widescreen
Quilting: Organic lines with my walking foot; Aurifil #2836 40wt for quilting; Aurifil #2021 50wt for hand stitching binding
Contemplating the universe |
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