Quilts for VanEssa 2

This one’s mine, and it’s nearly done.

I originally planned to sash both of the VanEssa quilts with a solid colour, either grey or a sort of absinthe yellow, but I was short of the yellow. However, I had enough scrappage left of the fabric I used for the backing to sash the front, and therefore I was able to sash the back with the yellow solid. And we all know how much I like a good scrap…

The quilt front, well on the way to completion. Top half is quilted and sashed, bottom half just quilted. I’ve gone for very simple and sparse quilting: a 4 inch central square and then two more concentric squares outside that. It works to hold the layers together but is still very supple and quiet to look at. So quiet, in fact, that it seems to be invisible in this photo…

And the backing, which I think works epically well! Who knew that a gigantic brightly-coloured floral print cut from a duvet cover at least 12 years old would unify all the different blocks and colours through sheer exuberance. Well, I suppose I had an idea it would work, but it was a tiny bit of a gamble. It’s rare that a quilt back is so much flashier than the front, but that’s certainly true here.

I think I’ll bind it with grey, either a solid or a grey and white print.

I should be able to finish this quilt in the next couple of days, and then onwards with the other one. 

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