Bits Of Whimsy Quilts: THE DANA QUILT 🌸

This gorgeous little quilt is called the Dana Quilt by Amber of Alderwood Studio. Amber is one of the @quiltersofinstagram that I follow. When I saw this quilt I knew I had to make it because I've never been able to find something to match my weird shade of green couch.

The pattern for this quilt is well written. It even provides pressing directions for piecing which makes things as simple as can be. It goes together quickly and easily.

I used Kona fabric in Spruce, White, Ice Peach and Celadon. I used the Celadon for the backing and the Ice Peach for the binding. We're still quarantined here so I guessed at the thread colors. I ordered Isacord in Swamp, Shrimp, Jalepeno and White. It's really hard to match colors online.

Once my pieced quilt top was done it was time to load it on my longarm ... my favorite part of the quilting process! This quilt was only 54 X 54 and I would be rolling it back and forth a lot so I decided to float my quilt top instead of rolling it onto the bar.

First I did all the stitch in the ditch work as I outlined everything. I used Aurifil Monofilament for my top thread and So Fine in the bobbin. I used a 2.0 tension with a stitch length of 9 and slowed down my machine speed to 240. Then I rolled the quilt back up and did the entire background in orange peels. This takes some work as you have to tuck them behind the patterns. I used Isacord in Swamp with a tension of 4.0 and a stitch length of 9. When that was done I rolled my quilt back to the top and did all the peach areas then went back and did all the white areas and finally all the celadon areas. I used the same colors in the bobbin as I did for the top so the backing, which is celadon has some very colorful threads.

I used Quilter's Dream Wool batting. I couldn't decide between Dream Wool and Dream Orient but I thought those large flowers might look nice with the puff that Dream Wool provides.

I used ruler work throughout the entire quilt. I quilted leaves on the four corner patches of each flower to make it look more like a flower.

Binding all rolled up on the Binding Baby.

I've ordered some pillow patterns and I hope to make some matching pillows for my couch. My couch is a very hard to match green color. It's a Danish Ekornes couch and the color is called Seagreen. It's got a blue green vibe to it. The Kona Spruce fabric is a darker version of it and blends well.

Here it is on my couch ...