Matroyshka 2 finished for my good friend's baby's 1st birthday! I really love how this one turned out! The color are fantastic! It almost has a matryoshka surfer girl vibe! |
The colors almost look different in every photo I took. I think these colors are more true than the top photo. The aqua fabrics are from the Moda Grunge line which I have not used before but will definitely use again! And the berry color is from the new Michael Miller Broadcloth Couture line which is amazing. It feels so soft and silky. When I hear broadcloth, I usually think not 100% cotton but this is 100% cotton and fabulous. Can you tell I'm a newly converted fan?
I'm calling this quilt Triangle Fancy. When the Flea Market Fancy fabric reprint was released, I bought almost the whole collection in either 1/2 yard or 1 yard cuts. Then I stared at it for a while and petted it and tried to let it tell me what it wanted to become...Truthfully, I'm not sure that this is what it had in mind but I needed to make a quilt for a silent auction fundraiser for our son's fine arts group at church and I had all of this on hand and I was rather inspired by this quilt by Anna Marie Horner so this is what I came up with! I've sewn really biasy things before but I've never done triangles like this. They aren't difficult but you have to be awfully careful about pulling and stretching! |
The back of Triangle Fancy is so fun! I quilted with straight-ish lines a 1/4 inch from all of the seams and it made this lovely grid of triangles on the back. This photo was taken pre-washing but post-washing, it looks even better in all of it's crinkly goodness! I love what a good wash does for my crooked seams!