I completed this quilt top as a shower gift for a friend that is getting married next month. Her shower was this past weekend. She loves all things beach and you could tell with her regestry that beach is her theme.
I pulled a selection of beachy feeling fabrics and started at them until I decided on a quick strip quilt with a little addition. I cut strips of these main fabrics ranging from 4.5" to 7 inches wide and pulled some strips from another project that were 1.5 inches to 4 inches wide to add a little more variation to the quilt.
Once I laid out all the fabrics in the pattern I wanted to use for the quilt I began to sew the strips together, but I wanted to add something. So, when a white thin strip was added, I cut through the sewn strips and added in a set of three pre-sewn strips vertically, then sewed the cut off section back on.
It added a little more color and some more interest to the quilt. That pattern continued to the top of the quilt. Once it was all together, which didn't take too long, I found a backing and set to basting this quilt. (Because of course my deadline of the shower was just a few days away so it couldn't get put aside!)
Maggie decided she wanted to help baste the quilt. She never comes in this room, but snuck in when I wasn't looking. (She got kicked out after I took the picture)
I decided to do some straight line quilting on this quilt with some free motion squiggles in the white horizontal strips.
I bound it in one of my favorite fabrics from a Christmas line, a grey stripe with little colorful dots that pop out every once in a while.
It is backed in a solid light green sheet that is also being used on the back of another quilt in similar colors.
I machine bound it because of lack of time, but I have had a lot of practice so it doesn't look too bad at all.
And here it is all packaged up, ready for the shower in beachy colors.
Jackie's Shower Quilt
45" x 67"
multiple stashed fabrics used
Pellon 80/20 batting
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