After over a week of 90 degrees weather, it seems rather timely and appropriate that I finally finished my Hot Flash quilt during this heat wave. I purchased the Hot Flash fabric by Luella Doss and Andrea Schuster around 2012 and but didn't make a quilt top until several years later. I've been meaning to finish it for the past several years but it still didn't make it on my 2017 Project List. Since I was sending some other quilts to Jan, my Long Arm Quilter, I decided to add the Hot Flash Quilt top to get it finished once and for all.
I didn't use a pattern for this quilt; I just let the fabric dictate the design and it helps that I have a penchant for making big block quilts whenever I'm working with wonderful big prints. Only two rows of this quilt were pieced and the rest of the rows were made with just solid pieces of the two large focus prints. Because of the simple design, the quilt looks like it is a panel or cheater cloth and since I backed it with another print from the collection, it hard to tell which is the front and which is the back so I guess you can say I made a reversible quilt. I mentioned in my last post that I normally don't back my quilts with fabric from the same line but for this quilt I did--I definitely bought this fabric when it was on sale.
This is the second of the five quilts which were sent out to be quilted. Jan did a wonderful job with the big organic scroll machine quilting and she used a variegated thread which picked up the different colors in this quilt.
I thought I provide some quilt stats so you can see how simple it was to make this quilt. All of my measurements are divisible by four which helps to make it an easy design. It's also a quick quilt to finish, either you do it yourself with straight or organic wavy lines or send it to your long arm quilter. I spent more time thinking (also known for me as wasting time) if I was going to quilt it myself but again I am glad I decided to send it to Jan.
Size: 56" x 72"
Side Borders (A): 8"(finished)
Black & White Sashing (B): 4" x 40" (finished) (there are six rows)
Top & Bottom Rows (C): 8" x 40" (finished)
Rectangles, 2nd & 4th Rows (D): 4" x 8" (finished) each row has 10 patches
Center Row (E): 16" x 40" (finished)
Since the in-law arrangements are almost done at my son's house, I will be leaving this quilt there since my sweet granddaughter, Micah Rose, just loves looking at prints, especially ones with black and white. I'm thinking her eyes are going to be extra stimulated with the Hot Flash Quilt.
And speaking of Micah Rose, when she was visiting several weeks ago, I started working on her first Halloween Quilt. I happened to be digging around my studio and found a bundle of Halloween prints by KP Kids/Kari Pearson which I know I purchased over ten years ago. I just love these prints of bright colors which to me don't seem to be as popular today as they were when I first started quilting. Since the bundle included a panel which featured Kitty Cats in costumes, I thought this would make a cute quilt for Micah, after all there are four cats in their house, but I wanted to make sure her Mom liked the fabric. She did.
Again, I made a quilt which looks like cheater cloth but only the left side is a panel, the right side is made with twenty-one, 2-1/2" x 20-1/2" cut strips and the black border is 3-1/2" cut strips (the only print which is not a KP Kids print.
Also, I shouldn't call this a quilt but a coverlet since I decided to only backed it with a piece of purple Minky which I had in my stash. I wanted to put batting in the middle to make it a quilt but if I had, then I wouldn't have been able to use the Minky. And the purple Minky looked so pretty against the quilt top. I'll be mailing this quilt to Micah so she has the whole month of October to enjoy it.
So happy to say that I finished two projects which were unplanned but nevertheless is a finish. With the end of the year fast approaching, I really need to get some more projects on my list finished. As for my Minus 100 Yard Challenge, it was looking good but since I'll be taking a workshop with one of my first Quilt Idols, Kaffe Fassett in early October, I had to purchase some new fabrics to prepare for his class. We need twenty half yard cuts and then some for this class. And that doesn't include the border fabric since he wants to help us decide what the border print should be, therefore, won't be purchased until after the class. Once the new fabric arrives and other things are added and subtracted, I'll be ready to post an updated tally. I'm still hoping I'm going to meet my challenge. And if I don't, I'll just have to say it was Kaffe Fassett's fault which wouldn't be the first time I said this.
Linking up with:
My Quilt Infatuation: Needle and Thread Thursday
Crazy Mom Quilts: Finish It Up Friday
Confessions of a Fabric Addict: Can I Get A Whoop Whoop?
Busy Hands Quilts: Finish Or Not Friday
