A Checkerboard Quilt
One hundred 16-patch blocks and 1600 patchwork pieces.
200 different printed fabrics.
1.5 yards of Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton in White.
Quilt measures 50 inches x 50 inches.
A big thank you to everyone who stopped by to check out my Checkerboard Quilt Tutorial. I really appreciate it! Personally I thoroughly enjoyed making this quilt, right from choosing and cutting fabrics to the quilting and binding. It was a lot of work - I am not complaining though - and definitely worth it for the end result.
Quilting OCD. It's a thing according to my kids. I love closely spaced quilting lines on my quilts (as opposed to having large un-quilted areas) and I really went to town on this one. The 1 1/4 inch squares have all been well and truly quilted and the result is a textured surface that draws in both your eye and hand. There are vertical, horizontal and diagonal edge to edge lines. No ditch stitching this time. My machine played so nice. All night long! I think it may have overheard my threats of abandonment.
For the back of the quilt I have chosen a single floral fabric - Shasta Daisy in Pink from the Glamping Collection for Moda Fabrics - which, if I had to pick 10 favorite fabrics from 2013, then this fabric would be right up there.
A signature black and white stripe binding completes this quilt. In fear of being boring there were other fabrics auditioned for binding but there was no fabric that made quite this statement.
This quilt was listed for sale in my Etsy Store
but has sold prior to publishing
this blog post and is now making its way to the new owner.
I am already planning my next Checkerboard/Postage Stamp Quilt; cutting and saving strips of fabric as I work on other quilts and projects, so that hopefully later this year I will be ready to start working on another. The same size squares, but even more of them!
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