After finishing the first quilt, I set out to make a second one quite quickly. At one point, I’d bought a stack of 10x10cm quilt squares online and decided to put them to use. Starting in a corner with dark squares, I worked my way up diagonally to create a rainbow of sorts. While it was still on the floor, I set out to place the squares in such a way that the ‘fun’ ones were not too close together, and that there were enough of them. I filled up other rows with dotted or floral designed squares that had come along too.
With fan favorites such as weird monkeys, chairs, saddles, a farm, a dress, chandeliers, lemons,
Aurora, robin tree, Where the wild things are, seals, pig-things, owls, alphabet, foxes,
Christmas trees, more owl, cars and candy corn!
After I decided I was happy with the placement, I pinned the squares in a straight row together to form one long snake and then sewed the first to the second square for all the rows. Setting the stitch length to 2 or so on the treadle and just machining along. Once all the rows were completed, I pressed the seams to one side for the entire row, then pressing the seams for the next row to the other side. Pinned the rows together and treadled merrily along. For the border I chose a nice and neutral grey triangles fabric.
Finished!
To quilt it, I chose to keep it simple. I found a bunch of bobbins with leftover threads in the main colours of my diagonal rainbow design and used those for quilting. Each diagonal is stitched with white in the actual bobbin and a vaguely matching thread in the top. You probably can’t see it in the pictures, but I thought it was a nice touch. The binding is the yellow whale stuff that backed the previous quilt. I still had a little bit leftover and thought it would be a good contrast. Also, whales. I like this one, it’s so fun and colourful!
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I just hope it holds up, but we’ll see whether it does in the future I guess.
