If you know me, you know that plain white is my least favorite color for everything. I refuse to own a white automobile, will not paint a wall in my house anything close to white, and very rarely wear anything that is solid white (I actually can't recall the last time I wore anything that was white). This solid white aversion follows into my sewing and quilting. I do love a good low volume white print for quilting and was thrilled when I received the Spaced Out Collection by Chelsea Designworks for Studio e Fabrics.
I have admired this quilt pattern for a long time. I knew it would be perfect as it looked like a fairly quick sew. All the pieces are either rectangles or half square triangles. It did go together really quick - even with me making a color change out near of my piecing.
I went to a fabric swap a few weeks ago and I got the gorgeous Kaffe Fassett Coleus print on the left. I immediately knew it would be perfect for my quilt backing as the colors were perfect! However, there was not enough for the entire back. Initially I thought I'd pair it with a solid. Then a fiend of mine asked me to go look at sewing machines with her at Stitchhouse. Stitchhouse is getting ready for a Kaffe Fassett meet and greet and had a huge assortment of fabric and picked out the Dahlia design on the right.
I LOVE how my quilt turned out. I am typically not a fan of pastel colors, but I think since I went heavy on the blues and green, it works for me.
When I first cut out all my fabrics, I had selected an orange sherbet colors fabric for the yellow. As I laid all my pieces out to begin chain piecing, the orange just glared out at me in a bad way. I had fabric from the Spaced Out Collection left, so I found a yellow in my stash and just made new pieces.
As I was chain piecing, I almost swapped the position of the yellow with the purple. I'm so happy I ignored that thought because I can't imagine a better color of the center of the design.
When it came to to do the quilting, I decided to do organic wavy lines. I used the walking foot on my Bernina and to get started I made my first line starting from one side going to the other weaving in and out of my safety pins from basting down a straight line.
I'm so please with how the quilting came out, that I will definitely do this method again. Was it quick - not really, but it didn't feel like it took forever either. I spent about 12 hours on the quilting. Which in my mind, isn't too bad.
The Spaced Out Collection has some really fun prints. One is a money print. There's also one with playing cards, and one with a circuit board design.
I have discovered that it's especially hard to photograph low volume prints after quilting.
The print with pink below reminded me of confetti.
Around the yellow you can see the 2 prints that have the most colors in them. They are both floral designs.
I had so much fun sewing this fabric collection. I definitely had a few favorite prints. Some of the simpler designs were my favorites, but also loved the more novelty prints.
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