Colour Box Quilt

I am delighted to share my Colour Box Quilt today!

It’s a pattern in the latest issue (61) of Love Patchwork and Quilting magazine and I got a lovely surprise when it arrived this week to find that it had made the cover! Even more so because I thought it was destined for issue 62!

There is a fabulous free gift this month – a seam roller! I was so taken with this that it took me while to register the cover!

It’s a fantastic issue with the most amazing quilts by my two Thread House buddies Lynne Goldsworthy (her stunning Georgetown quilt on the right is my current favourite Lynne quilt EVER!) and Karen Lewis (it’s a TTH Triple Whammy!!), plus an amazing sewing organiser pattern by one of this year’s Stitch Gathering tutors, Laura Cunningham!

This quilt is made with the Colorbox line of modern background fabrics by Brigitte Heitland (Zen Chic) for Moda, mixed with Moda’s Bella Solids.  I loved working with these fabrics!

The idea behind the quilt was to explore FPP flying geese a little more.  For a long time I have always used either the ‘waste’ or ‘no waste’ methods to make flying geese but I’m a recent convert to an FPP geese unit (in the right circumstances!).

I also wanted to mix a large range of low volume fabrics with some bright solids. The Colorbox range is so perfect for this and also includes fabulous cheater panels, one of which I used to make a faux scrappy binding!

This is the first quilt I FMQ’d using my new Janome 9400 sewing machine.  I think I had the tension a little high as it seemed quite ‘crinkly’, but other than that it worked like a dream and was even better with the next quilt (the TTH Medallion). This is another version or one of my favourite FMQ patterns, ‘mussels’, I changed it up a bit by varying the echoing between thinner and thicker lines. I do love an overall FMQ finish.

I used 50wt Aurifil thread in a lovely subtle variegated shade (4651) with mauves and yellows.  The background is a Windham fabric from the Story collection by Carrie Bloomston.

This quilt will be featured on the Sewing Quarter on June the 11th and there’ll be a kit available!

This is such a cheerful bright quilt that it’s destined to become a bit of a favourite of mine, and will surely join my Colour Theory Trunk show (and might even end up on my bed!)!