Vera Quilt

This is what my sewing tables look like when I'm in a creative mood. I have multiple projects out all in  different stages of progress. In this chaotic mess you will see the Vera quilt pattern by Bryan House Quilts. It's sitting on top of a few fabrics that I was considering to use for the pattern.

The chaotic mess slowly became more of a controlled chaos. I finally figured out my fabrics for the Vera Quilt, but in the process made a secondary pile for another quilt (seen in the upper left of the  photo below. 

The Vera pattern is not my favorite pattern to make. Is it my least liked - it is close. I do love the style of the quilt and the blocks, but if I make this pattern again, I am rewriting the pattern to my own liking. If you are wondering what I didn't like and what I would change, well here is my list:

• Make the  units around the center square as flying geese (using the four at a time method) and half square triangles (these either using the 4 at a time method or 2 at a time). 
• Resize the center square to 6" and then resize the flying geese and HST to match up to that size.
• The pattern gave no instructions to trim any pieces to any particular size once made - such as the flying geese.  

Since the pattern as written didn't give any "trim to" sizes I ended up with  some misshapen blocks and lost points  in a lot of places. When I trimmed all the blocks down to the final size was when  the most damage occurred. 

They say that quilting hides all the sewing/quilting sins. It does work.  You are way less likely to notice my mismatched spots and missing points when there is beautiful quilting. 

I used the Monstera pantograph from  My Creative Stitches and quilted the Vera  on my Tin Lizzie.  I LOVE how it came out. This pantograph was on sale for $5 (still is as I write this on 03/26) and was worth it - it stitched out perfectly. 

I finished my Vera with a fun striped binding that coordinated with the blue solid fabric I used. The blue solid I used is from Jo-Ann. It is one of their solids and  I don't recall the name. I was looking for a bright and light-ish blue that was turquoise to coordinate with our new rug in the living room.

The backside of the Vera Quilt is a waffle fabric from Minerva.  

The backing I was using was wide  enough, but not long enough. I loaded m y quilt sideways on my longarm so that the quilting would go a little quicker. 

The fabrics I used are mainly from Spoonflower  with a few other random scrap fabrics  thrown in for their color. 

I wanted my quilt  to be mostly turquoise, blue, and green. But I also wanted a few cream colored prints. I also wanted a few colorful ones to add some fun pops of color.

I fussy cut a few of the center blocks to feature items that I loved in the fabrics. Like the upper left peacock. 

This quilt now resides on our sofa back. It's the favorite  napping spot for our kitties and it can  get hair covered  in  no time. I've had a quilt in that spot, but I wanted a new quilt that went with the new rug a little better. This one complements the rug well and  also matches the mini  quilt I keep on a nearby chair and the colors are also the same in  the glass art in the open stairwell. I can't wait to see how this quilt ages and softens as it gets washed and used.

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