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| Out of the Woods (Meadow quilt), measures 70 x 66.5" (after first wash). |
Hurray I finally finished my meadow quilt!! You can read more about my tips on fixing the template to get flatter, better blocks here.
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): flower and medallion detail. |
This quilt used fabrics entirely out of my stash--with a focus on low volume fabrics that I'd had for a long time. It was kind of fun re-visiting fabrics from previous quilts and projects, and super nice to clear out low volume fabrics I wasn't sure how to use up (but worked great for a pieced back!):
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): pieced back! |
My favorite part of this quilt is the quilting. I wanted to keep the quilting fairly large-scale so it would be an extra cuddly lap quilt.
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): flower quilting detail. |
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): medallion quilting detail. |
I used all Aurifil threads on this quilt--including the cone of Stone (#2324) I received as part of the Aurifil Artisan welcome package. I used it for all of the low volume quilting and in the bobbin, but chose near-matching threads for each of the flowers:
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): Aurifil colors used! |
I'm a firm believer in quilting the life into a quilt, and although I didn't quilt this as densely or detailed as others, the results are still gratifying:
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): Before quilting |
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): After quilting and first wash. |
While piecing this quilt I pondered what to do with it, and finally settled on gifting it to my aunt. She's the last (but not least!) to receive a quilt from me on my side of the family. The benefit of this is my attention to detail and skill level are much better than 5-7 years ago (I've been quilting for almost 8 years now!). Fittingly there are some low volume fabrics in this quilt that I acquired 5-7 years ago (and one I got only a week before I did the piecing, so).
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| Out of the Woods (meadow quilt): quilting texture, and flat as a pancake. <3 |
Interesting (?) shrinkage stats
Quilt top: 72.5 x 84.5"
After quilting: 70.5 x 82"
After first wash: 66.5 x 70"
Cotton batting--I think Quilter's Dream, but maybe it was Warm and Natural?
