On Pause- Just Dreaming Summer Quilt

This is my second quilt that I started at the end of October last year becuase I had been studying for my Year 12 subject for 4 days straight and needed a break.

It is called "Just Dreaming Summer" after the fabrics and because while I made it I couldn’t wait for summer and our holiday in Perth. 

The quilt is inspired by one of my favourite tutorials from Oh, Fransson! called How to Make Scrappy Hedgerow Blocks.  I absolutely adored Elizabeth’s Scrappy Hedgerow Quilt so I thought I would give it a go.

 However, mine is a lot more scrappy and wonky and I also used slightly different measurements because I had only a fat 1/4 bundle to work with. 

I hadn’t intended for it to be so wonky but I just wanted to make something fun and didn’t have the time or the patience at that stage for perfection. 

*PS. It isn’t actually quite as uneven as it looks in the photos- it is just in desperate need of an iron, which I should have done before taking the pictures.

The Fabric is Riley Blake's Just Dreamy by My Minds Eye.                                        

I found it in a big fat 1/4 bundle at a quilt fair earlier last year and I absolutely loved the colours but I was hesitant to cut it because I loved it so much! I have also made an Owl from a Melly and Me pattern out of it.

The blocks I whipped up in a few days but the sashing was done early this year using a cream fabric called Butterflies by P&B Textiles.

  The Backing fabric is Woodland Bloom by Lila Tueller for Moda. 

and finally for the binding- I couldn’t decide wether to have pink or green binding but I decided it should be pink as I prefer it over green .My only problem was for months I couldn’t find the right shade of pink and then when I was getting my sewing machine serviced a few weeks ago I unexpentantly came across this fabric that was close enough and it has tiny coloured flowers on it that bring out some of the colours in the blocks.

  Anyway, so it is On Pause at the moment because I have no idea/ can’t decide how to quilt it. I don’t want to just "stitch in-the ditch" because I made the sashing a tad wide so it needs something to go through it and I would free motion quilt it but I don’t know how to, so that is the dilemma. I am doing a machine quilting workshop at the end of May so unless I have a marvellous idea before then I think I might have to wait.

In the meantime...

I am excited because my Fancy Free, quilt blocks for the quilt top are all finished and have turned out really well, so I will put some pictures up tomorrow!

Hope you liked the pictures and are having a great weekend,

Miranda and Charlie