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| I did not use that poison green solid for the back.....my daughter voted it down, via text, so I used a Marshall Dry Goods mottled blue from their Tie-dyed solids collection, found at my local fabric store. No photo of back or finished quilt......sorry ! |
That's right.....I've taken the quilts to be approved, and forgetting to take the last one that I posted about, my sister-in-law loved the other three......this one, the scrappy string quilt, and the orange barn star ! She took all three without quibbling about the prices that I asked.
I'm happy that she's happy, and I'm ecstatic that this commission is fulfilled. (In fact, I was so thrilled to be finished --with this 3 months of work--that I didn't even get a photo of the last quilt after it was quilted !
Finishing larger than the others, at 50" x 70", knowing that this quilt had lots of black, and being fresh out of the dryer, I didn't dare lay it on my carpet for a photo (remember, I have two in-house cats!), and these people are not pet people. I used an all cotton batting, and I have to say that with this one, I really loved the flat look of the pieced top MORE than the crinkly look of the laundered quilt. I'm finding that I now have to choose between cotton battings and polyester ones, dependent on the finished look that I want. I love the drape of cotton, but I enjoy the puffiness of the polyester sometimes, and the fact that it DOESN'T CRINKLE since I tend to prewash my fabrics. Of course, since I didn't prewash this batik fabric, being that it WAS cut as a jellyroll, it might have crinkled even with a poly batt.
As far as the commissioning goes, I don't often take on requests, specifically because of the stress that I feel during the fulfillment of them, and also for the plain reason that I like to make what I feel like making. Sounds pretty selfish, but I'm not actually selfish with the finished product, just how I spend my time. She meant to make this commission easy by telling me to just make whatever I wanted since she loves any quilting that I do, but I worried the whole time that it just wouldn't turn out to be what she had in mind originally.
As far as this quilt goes, I grabbed a batik jelly-roll that I have held onto for quite a few years, and was just going to sew it into strips of color-change. That went just fine until it came time to trim up the left and right sides to add a border. Even though the strips showed no sign of bowing, having sewn alternately from each end of the strip, somehow it just wouldn't trim up right. I was forced to come up with another idea, so I resorted to the idea of quilts that I had seen where they had cut the assembled strips into columns, turning the center one upside down.
Turns out that I like the new design much better than the original boring one ! Who knew (probably just about every quilter ever !)
Anyway...........you might not see another quilt from me for awhile, if Spring opens up where I can stay busy outside. Hope you've enjoyed this series of quilts !