Flower Sugar and Friends - a finished quilt

And a finished quilt that I absolutely adore. This baby quilt was pieced together fast and it was fun to play with those wonderful fabrics.

This is the first time I used  Heath from Alexander Henry as background fabric and I am totally taken by the effect. The subtle grey makes the colours in the stripes pop out so effectively. 

The quilting was an easy decision and I combined outlining the seams with a cross hatch pattern on a stitch length of 4 (I usually use 3.5 but have recently decided that the longer length looks better). What stitch length do you normally use for your straight line quilting ?

The quilt measures about 40 1/2" x 34 1/2" (103 cm x 88 cm).

The back features a very effective graphical print from Timeless Treasures from the I Heart collection by Rashinda Coleman-Hale.

And the binding is 'Oval Elements' in Peacock by Art Gallery. The colours are so fresh and bright and just make me smile every time I see it.

Let's hope this is inspiration for students who may want to join me in the baby quilt class in September at the Village Haberdashery.

Flower Sugar and Friends - a work in progress

 Moving on nicely...

 And a little close-up. Aren't these Lecien prints the cutest.

Flower, Sugar and Friends

I am holding another Baby Quilt class at the Village Haberdashery in September and have been planning to make a new class sample for a while now. So the other day I came across the few fat quarters of Lecien Flower Sugar I have in my stash and thought something ought to be done with it. They are the really beautiful prints from an older collection of the series (about 2 years ago) but the the new collection is rather gorgeous too by the way just in case you want to add it to your stash.

I love the turquoise, bright green and red in those prints and dived into my stash and scraps and pulled out a few more complimentary bits. I felt like doing something different and started cutting strips that I then combined with my Alexander Henry Heath in Steel Gray and the result are some beautiful 6" squares that are a mixture of strip pieced and half square triangle. I saw these first at Fresh Lemons Quilts sometime last year and the picture hast stuck ever since somewhere on the back of my brain. Faith also has a tutorial for those little butterflies too.