One Cranberry Crush - done !

Last weekend I finished the Cranberry Crush quilt I started towards the end of last year. Am I happy with it ? You bet. Everything about it delights my eyes. If you have followed my previous posts about it's progress (here, here and here) you will know that I used Anna-Maria Horner's Innocent Crush Range for this quilt and for the solid colourshott from Oakshott fabrics.

Fabric: Innocent Crush from Anna-Maria Horner
Wadding: Quilter's Dream
Quilting: Machine quilt
Quilting thread: Gueterman Sulky 30 in cranberry (1169)
Size: 74 x 74 inches (just under 1.90 m square)

As you can see from the photos the front is a zickzack pattern and the back a 9-patch combination. So basically nothing more than half square triangles and squares. Though one does have to put in some effort to get the zickzack pattern on point. I find that the best method is to cut squares and to sew on both side of the diagonal before cutting the square into two triangles. This ensures minimal stretch of the biased cut fabric.

Cranberry Crush is the first quilt I entirely machine quilted and whilst I will write a thorough review about my first 2 months experience with the Janome Horzion next week, I'd like to say that it has been a blast. I would never have imagined that machine quilting is so easy and that much fun. I always thought it to be hugely difficult. But I really had no problems at all, flatness issues, nothing. I quilted along the zickzack lines about 1.2 inches apart across the entire quilt.

Front (or back ?)

This is also the first time I used colourshott from Oakshott fabrics. The solid is easy to use a little thinner than Kona cotton for example but it is much richer in colour and has a wonderful sheen to it. The entire colour pallet is sumptuous and I am planning to use it a lot more in the future.
The cranberry solid gives the quilt  a really deep and lush feel to it.

Back (or front ?)

Lovely crinkly after it has been washed

 

Binding

 I used the 'Bubble Burst in Rich' for binding as its dark colour adds richness to the mood of the quilt and frames it well.

Storage

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Cranberry Crush - the back

I spent all day yesterday and some of this morning finishing the back of my Cranberry Crush quilt. It gotten a bit more elaborate than I originally thought but it was worth it. This I think will be one very beautifully elegant quilt.
I will quilt this one along the flying geese pattern on the front and will do this on the machine which I guess is a bit of an undertaking due to its size but I want to quilt it quite narrowly and it would be way to time consuming to do this by hand and besides why did I buy the machine !!!

Back

Detail

And here for good measure again the front.

Front

Progress update Cranberry Crush

I took the days between Christmas and New Year off and have been sewing franticly apart from when I indulged in Winter sale shopping (bought a gorgeous pair of shoes......).

I have finished the top for the Cranberry crush quilt and am very pleased how it turned out. The lushness of the cranberry colour makes all the difference I think. Next is the back and I am thinking to use the remainder of the patterned fabric of the Petal colour range from Anna Maria Horner's Innocent Crush for this. The entire colour palette has eleven different patterns which is rather on the numerous side and I did not want to use all of them on the top. I am thinking a bit of nine patch pattern for the back.

The finished size will be around the 1.90 meter mark (that is  74 inches) and I will post exact measurement of the individual parts later on.

                  
The first posts regarding this quilt can be found here and here.