I’ve never named any of my previous “dual” finishes before as a Double Whammy and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity since it went so well with Wonderland plus my liking to use alliteration in my Post titles. The Wonderland comes from the name of both of the prints used; Wonderland designed by MoMo for Moda fabrics (right) and Wonderland designed by Rifle Paper Company for Cotton+Steel/RJR fabrics (left). Coincidentally, I think both of these fabrics were released around the same time (2016/17). Neither of these quilts were on my list to finish this year but have been on my mind since I found the MoMo Wonderland fabric while rummaging through one of the bins last October. I made a flimsy then but thought this would be something I would post about but wanted to wait until I had time to make a quilt with the Rifle Paper Wonderland fabric since I do like my “duo” finishes. Well, this was the week which I had time to sew the Rifle Paper flimsy and then machine quilt both of the flimsy.
Both of these quilts are 40” wide because I had yardage in both fabric lines which I wanted to use as backing. I bet you can guess which backing went with which quilt.
I had a layer cake of the MoMo Wonderland fabric which I forgot to take a pic but I found an advert on line of the many lovely prints in this collection. I also purchased additional yardage and used the focus prints and multi-color check for this quilt.
Although I had drawn up a pattern for these prints years ago, I ended up using another pattern which I called Wonderbar since it involves cutting the layer cake squares in half or into four 2.5” strips depending upon the print. I made the 2.5” strip set rows using prints from the layer cake and the multi-color check which this idea came from my favorite Villa Rosa Clover pattern.
I usually don’t show a full pic of the backing but could resist because I love how the machine quilting looks. I’m tempted to hang up the quilt with the backing side showing.
BTW, MoMo has a sister, Sanae, who also designed Moda fabric and I used her OZ fabric line for my Dear Tula With A Twist Quilt made in 2021.also Her beautiful focus print for used the backing. Both of the sisters designed beautiful fabrics. MoMo is still designing fabrics for Moda and Sanae is designing for Kokka fabrics now. I still have a stash of Oh Deer fabric designed by MoMo which may be another quilt for another year.
I do have a story about the Wonderland fabrics designed by Rifle Paper Company in 2017. I received a fat eighth roll of 20 fabrics in a Fat Quarter Shop Blue Sampler box and remembered not being too excited about it and was planning on giving it away. But good Blog Buddy, Dee, beat me too it, by sending me her fat eighth roll. I ended up purchasing a charm pack and yardage of this collection to have more print variety since my plan was to make a quilt similar to my Slinky Quilt but never got around to cutting up the squares. This quilt had been on my mind longer since this stash of fabric was always in my view whenever I’m in the studio.
I ended up designing another pattern for these fabrics to better use up the charm squares and 8.5” squares cut from the fat eighth roll. I also used the same two fabrics for the 2.5” strip sets made with the stripe and small check fabrics. I’m calling this quilt Wonderland Two or should I name it Alice instead?
I machine quilted Wonderland Two also with straight and wavey lines using CT Essential Thread in Parchment. I have to mention that machine quilting was done under two hours for each of the Wonderland quilt and way faster than hand sewing the binding.
Wonderland Two measures 40” x 60” so I had to add 4.5” strips of a Cotton+Steel print in off white to the top and bottom. If there is anything I learned from making the two Wonderland quilts is to never buy just a 1.5 yard cut of a focus print. You are much safer with a two yard cut in case you decide to use it for a backing.
Here’s a close-up of the backing print. I’m only family with the Alice in Wonderland through Disney and never read the book written by Lewis Carroll. Some of these characters are pretty funny, especially the one who reminds me of Michael Jackson and wondering about the lobster, turtle and funny bird. And yes to Alice wearing cowboy boots. It’s funny that I really did not care for this fabric until Wonderland Two quilt was finally made. I think this would make a lovely floor mat for the darling Granddaughter since it’s time to put away the one she used during the holidays.
Sarah Watts of Ruby Star Society (formerly Cotton+Steel) just released her Hello Alice fabric. I’m tempted to purchased a charm pack of it, and if you remember I still have a fat eighth bundle left of the Wonderland fabric sent from Dee, and should send this back to her. I think the two combined fabric collection should make an interesting quilt.
My next project for the rest of February is my #4 Project for the Country Threads Dirty Dozen UFO Challenge. I’ll be sewing lots of 6” and 3” HST which were leftover from my Spunky Americana Quilt but then I ended up die-cutting more. I am hoping I can have a flimsy made by the end of the month. Super Bowl Weekend which is a good time to sew but we will be at the GP House and sadly my Janome Jem doesn’t sew a scant 1/4” line. I’ll have to keep buy with some other sewing projects.
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