Sunday, October 27, 2013

I'm on a ROYGBIV Roll!

This is what happens when you re-organize your fabric shelves and see what you all have there.  I love to organize by colour.  This quilt emerged when I sorted my scrap strings.  And this one when I sorted all my fat quarters and larger scraps!

Rainbow Plus Baby Quilt


It was so fun, fun, fun to make! I have referenced it before and I will reference it again, because it is such a great tutorial. Go see Jeni Baker at In Color Order and her Plus Quilt Tutorial.

Rainbow Plus Baby Quilt

I backed this one with some snuggly flannel from Riley Blake in a lovely bright red. I quilted it using the "wavy" stitch on my Bernina (stretched as wide as it could go and at length "3") and my walking foot. It was so easy peasy and so satisfying because a little wiggle is totally unnoticeable, unlike with straight line quilting. I'm so happy with the results.

Rainbow Plus Baby Quilt

The binding is a fun orange Pezzy Print from American Jane. All pieced with Aurifil in 50 wt of course. I used Aurifil in a light gray for the top quilting and a rainbow variegated for the bobbin, to add colour to the reverse side. Dimensions are 36" by 52".

Rainbow Plus Baby Quilt

As much as I love it, it is a little small for the growing members of my family and even for me.  It will soon be up in my Etsy shop!

Rainbow Plus Baby Quilt

ETA:  I completely forgot to give credit to Becca at Bryan House Quilts!  Her Rainbow Plus Quilt has been such a part of my quilting subconscious for a while now I barely realized it was not from my own brain!  Becca's, however, is a sophisticated and grown up version which is absolutely breathtaking.  Go look!!


  Rainbow Plus Baby Quilt

Rainbow Plus Quilt

12 comments:

  1. Love it. I love all the colors and the patterns you used in it. I have not done a roygbiv quilt yet, but maybe one will be in the works soon.

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  2. I see that winter has arrived out your way. The quilt is beautiful - I feel like copying you!

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  3. I love, love, love this quilt!!! So much so that I want to make one just like it!! Hope you don't mind if I pin it to my Quilt & Sew board on Pinterest.

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  4. Thanks for the shout out!

    What a great picture! The quilt pops even more on that snow! Lovely job.

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  5. So gorgeous Carla. I really like this one. Do you really have that much snow already?

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  6. Gorgeous...although I'm slightly depressed to be seeing snow pictures already!!

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  8. I absolutely love your color sense. Oh my! I know you don't live too many hours away from me and you have SNOW!

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  9. I love this so much! The intensity of your colours is just gorgeous :).

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