Delectable Mountain Quilt

One of the attorneys that I have worked with over the years is retiring soon. I will miss working with him. I wanted to make him a quilt to show my appreciation for always taking the time to walk me through all the legal options when  confronted with an  issue. I decided to make a Delectable Mountain Quilt for him in shades of green and blue in  a gradient.  

I had seen a few variations of this style of quilt made by Molli Sparkles. See an amazing rainbow version that he made HERE. While there really isn't a top or bottom to the quilt in reality, I envisioned it, and built it on my design wall, as pictured below. 

The finished quilt isn't quite a square - it is slightly longer in  one direction. I looks great sideways too.

Almost all of these fabrics came from my remnant/scrap bins. Many fabrics were random fat quarters that I had collected  over time. I did grab a few fabrics from my shelves of yardage to fill in some colors that I felt were missing. 

I wanted to make sure that all my directional fabrics were going in the same direction, but figuring our which way to cut fabrics just to get the right shaped mountains was hard enough and I decided not to worry about fabric direction. 

I tried to use as many nature themed fabrics as possible in this quilt. I even included some of the fabrics that I have designed that are based off of photos of rocks and minerals. 

This quilt was so fun to make and I want to make one for myself. I hope my friend loves this quilt and will think fondly of his time at EPA when he uses it/

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Twilight Garden Flannel Quilt

I was sent the Twilight Garden collection by Mary Jane Carey of Holly Hill Quilt Designs to sew up for Henry Glass Fabrics. This collection is printed on a two ply flannel and its oh so cozy.

I will admit that these colors are not my favorites. While I do love the dark plum color, I'm just not a fan of pastel colors. I struggled to decide on a quilt pattern to make and looked through my collection to find one I had not yet made. 

I selected the Melody Quilt pattern by Kitchen Table Quilting as I thought I would love the scrappy version with these fabrics. 

Unfortunately, I ended up not liking the darker plum sticking out so much more than all the lighter fabrics. I struggled with an arrangement of blocks that I felt was pleasing to the eye. I finally settled on orienting all the darker blocks in the same direction to give a visual flow. 

I feel like the lighter fabrics just get lost in the design and it was very hard to photograph to get the darker fabrics not looking too dark and not washing out the lighter designs. 

I backed the quilt with the leftover pieces of fabric and I used a cotton/poly batting when quilting it on my longarm. The seams on this quilt ended up being very bulky (the flannel back and batting did not help). My longarm would not go over them easily - I checked this before quilting. To combat the thickness, I decided to use the "A Wave in the Sand" pantograph from My Creative Stitches. This pantograph come in 3 widths and I selected the shortest width, then upscaled it on my Ruby Butler to make the lines farther apart. This worked out great and my quilt has such a great texture from the quilting.  

This quilt is probably the snuggliest and coziest quilt I have ever made. The flannel feels so good and it has a nice heft to it with the batting and a flannel back. 

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