I am finally working on reducing some bolts of fabric from my stash. Yes, it may only be two down but that's just fine. The focus fabric in this quilt is Pastiche by Jason Yenter for In The Beginning Fabrics. The apricot fabric is is Apricot Linen from Hoffman fabrics and the turquoise fabric is Aunt Grace from Marcus Fabrics. The quilt pattern is called Elegance from the Big Block 3-Yard Quilts by Fabric Cafe.
I really like the way the pattern comes together and creates the secondary pattern at the corners of the blocks. I made the queen size which ended up being 87" x 96". I did not have enough of the Aunt Grace fabric to make a larger outer border. As I wanted this quilt to have a similar look to older quilts (where the quilter would fold over the backing as a binding) I matched the binding to the outer border using the turquoise fabric. The binding is machine bound.
I machine quilted this quilt with an edge to edge pantograph called Fern from Urban Elementz. I used Glide thread in the color Cool Grey.
This quilt does not quite fit our king size bed so it will be up for sale at a sale price of $350 as I had purchased the fabric on sale.
I have 3 baskets of quilts ready in the wings to be made. As I am now doing long arm quilting for The Quilt Shop at Christensens in Richfield UT my quilting time at home may be trimmed down.
I hope you are all enjoying this autumn weather (in the USA).
By the way did you know that the word Pastiche means: an artistic work in a style that imitates that of another work, artist or period? I did not so I had to look it up. I learned something new today!
May your lives be filled with blessings through out the coming months.
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