I've now have four quilts with Kaffe Fassett fabrics which are finally finished for the year so far with this past weekend's finally finish of the Kaffe Appliqué Quilt. I wrote about this quilt on my Farewell to Fassett February post which I detailed the finishing of the top after being an UFO for several years.
I don't do a lot of appliqué quilts but for some reason when this Going Green pattern by Darlene Zimmerman was published by American Patchwork and Quilts in February, 2011, I decided I was going to make two of them, one in feedsack fabrics and the other in Kaffe Fassett fabrics. The feedsack version was finished around three years ago and after that the Kaffe version was an on and off again project. This quilt wasn't even on any of my project lists or 2018 but somehow I caught a bug to finally finish it probably due in part to the other three Kaffe Fassett Quilts finishes. And now the fraternal twin quilts are together at last. Both of these quilts measure 66" square.
I quilted the Kaffe quilt the same way as I did with the feedsack quilt with diagonal lines on the pieced blocks and quilting in the ditch around each block with black thread. (Why is it when you quilt in the ditch, you always go off in the area where it will show the most, in this case the blue blocks.) I also sewed a coconut button in the center of each appliqué block to go with the tropical feel of this quilt.
And look at the fun backing I found in my stash which I bought yards of it maybe ten years ago. I'm glad I finally am able to use it, and I still have some left; I think I may have bought the entire bolt. I'm pretty sure it was on sale.
Here are my Fassett Fab Four and am pretty amazed that these were finally finishes for this year and it's only May. This has happened in my quilting past when I always find myself in a Kaffe Fassett phase, never a rut, and I just have to force myself to stop using his fabrics. Once again, I am finding that I should take a Fassett Hiatus (say that five times real fast) or for that matter just a break from any sewing which I will do next week. I'll be vacationing with my darling granddaughter Micah and her parents and I do not plan on doing any sewing. But I will bring my forever 30's hexie project with me just in case I start getting antsy. Who knows, I might finally finish this project.
And the sewing respite will be brief because upon my return I'll have to kick into high QAL mode because I'll have some catching up to do with the Classic Meet Modern (hosted by My Quilt Infatuation), Adult Playtime Plus (hosted by MMM Quilts) and Fireburst Mystery (hosted by Tish N Wonderland) QALs. All of the links to these QALs are on my sidebar. I can't seem to get enough of participating in QALs because there's two more coming up this summer: Christa Watson's Dot Dot Dash and Meadow Mist Designs and Quilted Blooms' Modern Plus Sampler. It's just hard to pass up good QALs.
