To be honest, of all my selfish sewing projects, this was the one that I was most looking forward to actually getting to! I had bought a FQ rainbow voile bundle from Westwood Acres some time ago, and I knew I didn’t want to do anything fussy with it given the slippery, rather elusive nature of voile, so I cut each FQ down to 2 lots of 13” x 17 1/2”, and using one of each colour created a very basic patchwork top (I’m saving the rest for a voile backed summer weight one).
I pieced an AMH velveteen back for it to make it super tactile, using the simple method of joining the 2 at the selvedge, since I didn’t want velveteen fuzzies everywhere by trying to cut it until I absolutely had to.
For the basting I had heard horror stories of working with voile, so I spray *and* pin basted this sucker (it needed it!), then ‘in the ditched’ each line, and then echoed 1” to the right of each vertical line, and 1” above each horizontal line, to create a bit of a tartan line effect. Finally I did one vertical and one horizontal line through the centre of each row/column. I’m hoping the quilting for this is enough, I haven’t washed it yet to find out! Sorry, I tried to get close ups of the quilting, but I cunningly quilted it in a nearly invisible varigated light grey thread so, err, you can’t see it!
I bound it in some leftover AMH voile from my infinity blanket I made for SS last year, and I knew would be just enough for *something*
Nice and simple, lets the beautiful prints just speak for themselves 🙂 Bet it feeeeeels wonderful!
Now that's a quilt I'd like to roll myself up in like a sausage!
Looks fab! Bet it feels awesome! Congrats on another finish too!
This is the project I've been waiting to see too! I love it! And I can just imagine how fabulous it feels.
It's real after all!!! Glad it didn't blow of the top of the multi-storey!
Lovely x
It looks luscious!
I love it! I bet it is just wonderful to lie under and so pretty to look at. And soon you will be finished all your finishes.
Gorgeous!! I want to stroke it!
Such gorgeous prints. I bet it feels heavenly!
Voile would be so nice for summer. Very pretty.
Looks great Katy!
I have not really been brave enough to quilt with voile yet. One day perhaps…
A dream quilt!
I don't remember any difficilties quilting my voile quilt …
None at all
(And I'm not a proficient quilter)
I'm betting it is so soft, it looks gorgeous, we don't always need to make everything complicated to make it look great, and this is the perfect example.
It's beautiful of course! I never had any problem with my AMH voile backing but that may be because it was only 2 large pieces.
wowsers.
Fantastic! I always love rainbowy projects, keep up the great work!
What an awesome snuggly quilt! 🙂
Love the voile quilt. When you make a summer weight quilt, what do you use for batting? I have a set of voile fat quarters that would make a pretty summer quilt.
Gorgeous! well done fir biting the bullet, great combination of textures
it looks yummy. I need to use my bundle but I have added it to the list of many to make
Looks great, sounds like it will feel wonderful and 2 finishes already, you are most definitely cooking with gas 🙂 Whatever you are on, send some my way!