A Finished Pink Quilt for My Sister

I quilted this quilt after I finished my son and d-i-l's quilt for their July wedding and used the same pantograph as I had used on their quilt as I thought the flowers in the pantograph went really well with the flowers in the fabrics as well as the pieced flower shapes in the quilt.

 Here is the finished quilt.  For some reason my pictures came out showing the quilt quite a bit paler than it actually is even though the grass came out really dark.

Here is a much better picture of the quilt with my sister which she sent me when she opened it although the quilt is a bit creased from being squished up in a mailing box.

I was hoping to give it to her in person, but I don't think that is going to happen anytime soon due to covid travel restrictions so I had to mail it to her.

My Sister's Quilt Top is Fully Pieced!

So after I blogged about my sister's quilt last Thursday, I carried on and finished the additional six flowers and cut out the setting triangles (twice*) and sewed the centre together.  *I had never managed to make this particular mistake before, but if you cut out a square, but somehow it isn't a square, maybe it was 14" x 13" or 14" x 15", and then you cut that square diagonally twice, you do not end up with right angle triangles suitable to square up the sides of an on point block setting.  Half of the triangles will be greater than 90 degrees and the other half will be be less than 90 degrees, and none of them can be re-cut to be what you intended.  Luckily I had more fabric.  Here is the completed centre of the quilt including the first border, which is the same background fabric so doesn't really show up.  The picture was taken at night so unfortunately is rather washed out.

On Sunday I added all the borders.  Here it is with the second and third borders.

And here it is with the final border I chose (not the same as the pattern's next two borders).  This border let me use up almost all of the green and pink fabrics in the bundle.  There were two fabrics that I didn't use at all because neither of them had a pink or green background, one was off white and the other was taupe.

I also decided on the backing fabric, I just have to go get another metre.  I made the binding out of the lovely green fabric that is printed to look like linen.  And I made two corner hangers which I will use as the labels.  I was pleased to be able to trim four of the aforementioned greater than 90 degree setting triangles for these so now I only have four less than 90 degree triangles to find a purpose for.

In other news, although I haven't blogged about it yet (I still intend to), I organised all my quilt tops waiting for quilting including making sure that they all had backing fabric and binding fabric.  I also made a label for one of them and then decided since this particular quilt now had everything ready to go I would put it on the frame and quilt it.  I am still contemplating the quilting (I have the border figured out).  So all this is to say that until this quilt is quilted and off the frame, my sister's quilt will have to wait.....  My own "organisation" is now holding me back!  How did that happen?

Progress on my Sister's Pink Quilt aka "Summertime Blues" and "May Flower"

I sent my sister pictures of three different pink fabric collections and this is the one she chose with help from her daughter.  I was glad because it was my favourite too.

Yesterday I got out and bought some additional fabric for the background, borders, binding and also to make some of the pink and green flowers.

As soon as I got home, I couldn't resist and I made a "test" flower.

Not long after I had four flowers.

And before a late supper I had seven flowers, only six more to go.

I actually made this same quilt before for my mother and am making it again for my sister at her request.  The pattern is called "Summertime Blues" (It was made with blue flowers).  I got the pattern from the June 2009 American Patchwork & Quilting magazine.  The designer is Jill Finley of Jillilly Studio.  You can buy the pattern here.  I made my mother's quilt in pinks and called it "May Flower" since her birthday was in May and she always looked for the first May flowers in the spring.  Here is the quilt I made and gave my mother for Christmas 2011.  It is 60" square.  I didn't do a lot of quilting on it and always planned to do a bit more.  Since I have the quilt right now, I might get that done.

If you go check out the pattern you can see that I didn't follow the pattern exactly.  I left off the applique flowers and didn't piece the 2nd last border.  My sister's will not be the same as the pattern either, or the same as my mother's.  My mother's pinks were peachy and her greens were apple or limey green.  My sister's pinks are rosier and her greens are more olive green.  I'm looking forward to taking a picture of them side by side for comparison.