Grand Reveal – "Lounge Quilt" Edition

Showing you this quilt today is a little out of order, because I actually finished another one which I still haven’t shown you before this one, but I couldn’t resist showing this first. I’m just too.in.love.with.it!…

Please meet my latest quilt finish: My “lounge quilt”…

I started cutting the fabric for this quilt back in September last year and sent it out to the lovely ladies from Sew Aussie in October for my month in the bee. So it has been a wee while in the making and makes the finish ever so much more sweet!
It is the first time ever sending fabric to a bee and I love the fact that I now have a “matching” bee quilt to add to my growing stash of bee quilts.

These are so far from my usual “go to colours” but I still could not love it more. I chose the colours and block design specifically to coordinate in with the colours of my lounge/sitting room for a lap quilt. Because I knew we were keeping this quilt, I allowed myself to choose a lot of my most “precious” fabrics to use in its scrappy fashion…

Plenty of my favourite designers and also plenty of fabrics collected from swaps with online sewing friends!

I was originally just planning on using blocks only and not having borders for the quilt top, but once I’d sewn the blocks together it wasn’t quite big enough for what I wanted. I could have of course made 4 more blocks , but it’s no secret that I’m very lazy and I had set my sights on a finish during the school holidays! In that case I decided to add a few rounds of borders which is not something I commonly do. I started making them without any real plan as well, but I’m very happy with how the border frames the quilt and brings the design together!

I started this quilt last year so I obviously didn’t start it as part of Kelly’s “my precious” quilt along… however the quilt along did inspire me to finish this quilt by continuing to use more of my precious fabrics than I’d originally planned and as a result I decided to embrace using my “precious” fabrics together in a pieced back as well…

Oh my heart I love that back!!
I bravely used entire fat quarters of some out of print fabric which I had only been able to obtain through swaps, but I couldn’t be more happy with the use of them! The original flea market fancy fat quarter, the tula pink fat quarter and the Sandi Henderson henna fat quarters were all from swaps.

The Amy Butler love fat quarters were part of the first bundle of fabrics that I ever let myself splash out and buy at my local quilt store. I paid a premium for those when I first started quilting and it feels so good to finally use them in a project that I will be able to “love” so much…
The same applies for the Alexander Henry Farmdale print. I think I purchased that at the same time. Farmdale has to be one of my all time favourite fabric ranges and that print was just calling out to be included.

The Denyse Schmidt fat quarters I used in the back actually were only released and purchased long after I started this quilt. But gosh you would never know because they just go PERFECTLY and are the exact same colour schemes.

The best place to highlight the quilting is also on the back as shown above. I decided to quilt this quilt very lightly, just quilting down the centres of the “X’s”, then around the outside borders a few times. I used a beige thread which was again sent to me in a swap in both the top & bobbin. Very simple quilting but I think it complements the design perfectly and not having a lot it makes the quilt super snuggly.

It is so simple in fact that using just one bobbin I was able to complete the entire quilting and nearly finish the binding too. That has got to be a first for me!!

The binding is scrappy and made up of left over bits from both the front and back…

Gotta love a good scrappy binding!

And one last photo just because;
Here it is gracing its new home on the couch…

Now just to make some coordinating cushions and it will be complete 🙂

Love love love!!

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