Since the semester is over and papers are all graded and in the system, I finally had enough time to finish the "birthday" quilt for my sister (her birthday is in March, so we'll call it the belated quilt). I got the fabric for this quilt in January and it's just been sitting around screaming at me to work on it for the past four months.
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| Finished quilt! |
For this quilt, I used the Mediterranean Dream fabric by Simon and Kabuki, which I chose based on a color palette she sent me when I asked if she'd like a quilt. I thought I was never going to find anything like what she was looking for, and then this fabric pack came along.
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| Palette my sister sent me |
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| Fabric I found! |
I think I did pretty good hunting down that palette! So far, I've only made patchwork quilts, so I wanted to try something new, but not so difficult that I would mess it up. I stumbled on "value quilts" in my googling, and decided to give that a try. SewKatieDid has a great tutorial, if you are interested in making a value quilt. This is the end result:
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