My niece is 15 and her style is somewhere between bohemian and the days of peace signs and free love, you know the 60s. So my goal, to make her a quilt that would capture the feel of both of these worlds. As soon as I saw AMH fabric, I knew that it was a perfect match...bohemian for sure, but it needed a little something to give it that hippie feel.
I think that the peace signs were the perfect answer!
I decided to let all the patterns touch and intersect in order to keep it a bit more organic and colorful. All my left over scraps were used to make the binding, and I love the way that it blends into the pattern of the quilt. Once again, I used variegated thread for the quilting, and it really added to the feel of this quilt.
I am a machine binder, and usually end up with a clean stitch on the front edge of my binding, which looks nice, like I said, clean...but I have been wanting to perfect attaching the binding to the front first, that way the stitch would be on the back. I have tried over and over and had not found a perfect solution. Luckily, this world of blogging lets us learn from others and Red Pepper Quilts had the remedy for my dilemma. She had given the tip of stitching in the ditch on front of the quilt to catch the fold on the back....works like a dream!
This is the end result, I love it, and am SO thankful that she shared this wonderful tip.
I have to try that machine binding trick, Love!!! the peace quilt!!! those pieced appliqued signs are oh so groovy!!!
ReplyDeleteHi Izzy, this quilt is just gorgeous, I'm sure your niece will love it! I have a stack of good folks too, you are making me think I need to start to use that soon! Thank you for your visit to my blog, I really appreciate your fabulous comments. Cathy xo
ReplyDeleteI love the quilt you have made, the fabrics look fantastic how you have used them! Your niece will surely treasure this quilt. I am so glad this machine binding method has worked out for you - you will find it does actually get easier everytime you bind another quilt!
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I have just ordered some more AMH - it is such a fantastic range. Gorgeous mixed with others or like you have shown...spectacular on it's own.
ReplyDeleteA fantastic quilt, one your niece will LOVE!
That quilt is fabulous, and you chose the perfect fabric for the look/feel you were going for! I'm sure your niece will cherish it!
ReplyDeleteThis is wonderful! I also just finished a quilt using Good Folks. I can't believe I have never found your blog before - you do beautiful work!
ReplyDeletenice work! I'm looking forward to the binding tutorial from you girl!
ReplyDeleteI'd really love to know where you got the pattern for this. My grandmother is looking to make me a quilt for college and this is right up my alley!
ReplyDeleteIzzy, I like your work. I am an artist and arts educator currently working on a Peace Curriculum. We have a Peace Quilt project that we are offering in the curriculum and I was wondering if you would be willing to share an image of the awesome peace quilt you made so that we could include an example image in our resource. If so, I would be thrilled. Can you send me a confirmation and an image (or 2) if you're up for it to info@createpaceproject.org. thanks much. peace, Ross www.createpeaceproject.org
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