The Maker's Quilt

The Meet The Makers Quilt is a modern quilt that was introduced at the 2018 Quilt Market.  It uses Riley Blake Confetti Cotton Solid Fabrics. It's called Meet The Makers because each block was designed by a different maker and then the blocks were assembled together into a quilt pattern that was offered as a limited edition quilt kit.  This quilt is for my niece, Kari.  

This quilt is 70" X 70".  It's made with 1760 tiny pieces. There are five different blocks in this quilt for a total of 49 blocks altogether.  If you look at the corner blocks, those are called alternating blocks and there are 25 of those.  When stitched together with the other blocks these alternating blocks form irish chains in light and dark blue.  The actual colors are called Navy and Petunia.  

Riley Blake Confetti Cotton Solids are beautifully made.  They have a very nice hand to them.  "Hand" refers to quality of a fabric assessed by feeling the fabric between your fingers and thumb and seeing how soft it is.  The confetti colors in this quilt were ...

White, Navy, Peacock, Grass, Daffodil, Green Smoothie, Lilac, Petunia, Rouge, Orange, Crayola Tickle Me Pink, Cranberry, Sweet Mint, Crayola Blizzard Blue, Vivid, Cayenne, Lipstick, Sugar Pink and Daisy. These fabrics come together to create a beautiful rainbow of colors.  

The alternating block is made using six different color ways.  The cut pieces are shown above. This block is made up of four-patch pieces, strips and flying geese pieces.  Block #1 is made up of squares and half square triangles.  Block #2 is made up of squares and half square triangles. Block #3 is made up of flying geese pieces and squares. And block #4 is made up of flying geese pieces, squares and rectangles.  

 

Once the 49 blocks were assembled it was time to put it on my longarm.  For this quilt I used Quilter's Dream white polyester batting.  I used white because of all of the white in the quilt top.  Using a cream batting behind white fabric makes it look dingy.  But if you use the white batting it helps to make the quilt top pop.

I used Aurifil monofilament thread for the quilt top and MicroQuilter #7017 for the bobbin.  I turned the tension down to 1.75 and sewed with the bobbin set up 200 TOWA.  I also increased the machine speed since this was mostly stitch in the ditch work.  This was completely quilted by using ruler work.  I used a straight edge and one circle. I also outlined the Irish chains to add a secondary design to the quilt.

This quilt is for my husband's niece.  He is my Master Quilt Holder and he held it up for me to take a picture of it after he went for his COVID shot at the VA.  

Remember to pick up a needle and thread and stitch some love into your world❣️