All Time Favorite.

This quilt, that I call "Three Color Sunset Quilt", may very well be the favorite quilt I've made.  Of course I love all the quilts I've made.  Don't you love all the quilts you've made?

Here's a shot of the quilt back.

A close-up of the Loops and Swirls quilting

I've put it in the shop, here.

I'm linking up to the Let's Get Acquainted Link-Up, at from Pixels to Patchwork.

May your bobbins always be full,

Three Color Sunset Quilt back

I had many options for piecing this quilt back.  I decided to use the 12 flying geese I had on hand.  Four are left over from the quilt top and eight are from the trials I did of making flying geese 4 at a time.  I staggered them hoping to give the impression of movement.  The panel of flying geese will be vertical on the quilt back.

May your bobbins always be full,

Three Color Sunset Quilt

The quilt top is done, and I'm lovin' it.  It went together pretty fast!

I'm so glad I attempted this quilt.  The only negative was I mixed Cotton Couture and Kona Cotton.  I did it to get the colors I wanted, but I have to say Kona is much easier to work with.  Cotton Couture handled more like a voile.  I'll get the quilt back done later this week.  I still don't know what I'm going to do!

May your bobbins always be full,

Three Color Sunset Quilt

I have been busy.  This is the quilt pattern I did in Excel.  Excel is about as "fancy" as I get.

Each square equals 2 inches, so the finished quilt will be about 68 x 70 inches.  The white spaces mark where there's a flying geese block, for color transition.

Speaking of Flying Geese, I've never made them before so I went looking for a great tutorial.  The first one I found was good, not great; the math wasn't perfect.  The second one, and the one I highly recommend, is outstanding.  (I tried both tutes, to be sure.)  You make four perfect Flying Geese at a time, and they turn out perfect!  Great math, and no truing up needed.  This is the tutorial:  Flying Geese - No Waste Method.  Be sure to pin it for future reference.  Melissa Corey of Happy Quilting, wrote the great tute.

First I needed to figure out my block sizes, then how many of each size in each color.  I ordered 1/2 yard of each gray and yellow color, there was no room for error cutting any of the pieces.  Below are my Flying Geese, all stacked up.  I chain stitched all the units, for each step, a real time saver.

Then I was ready to cut all the different color strips.  As you can see from the top photo, I counted squares, multiplied by 2 and adder 1/2 for my seam allowance.

 Now, I'm ready to sew the Flying Geese and strips together.  Wish me luck.  These colors remind me of a fiery sunset, thus the quilt name.

May your bobbins always be full,

Three Color Quilt

These are the fabrics I ordered for a new quilt.  Canary, Sun, Mango, Orange, Fuchsia, all Michael Miller Cotton Couture Solids, and Charcoal, Coal, Medium Gray and Ash from Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton.

I saw a quilt on Pinterest and decided "I could do that", you know, the famous words.

Here's the pin:

source: Challenge Winner #1: Kristen MacDonald

I decided to use the fuchsia instead of the blue.  Wish me luck!

May your bobbins always be full,