QUILT DETAILS:
Many Trips Around the World Quilt
The finished measures 49 inches x 61 inches.
49 rows of 39 squares.
Each finished square measures 1.25" x 1.25".
Total number of squares: 1911.
Fabric Used:
100+ different small scale prints including
many stash basics - dots, stripes, checks, gingham.
Solid Fabric: Robert Kaufman Kona Cotton in White
Quilting:
Ditch stitching all vertical and horizontal seam
lines - spaced 1.25 inches apart.
Quilting:
Ditch stitching all vertical and horizontal seam
lines - spaced 1.25 inches apart.
Batting:
Low loft cotton batting
Warm & White batting from The Warm Company;
Warm & White batting from The Warm Company;
a low loft batting perfect for use with low volume and bright white fabrics.
A new week and a finished quilt, and as always I have lots of photos to share with you today. This quilt was inspired by the many Trips Around the World Quilts that have gone before it! It must have been - and still is - a popular traditional quilt design both with hand and machine piecers.
I machine pieced the quilt top and re-worked my Scrappy Day Trip Quilt Pattern - which is a block based design with strip pieced sections - and I adjusted it for the extra trip - or additional round of squares - around the center square. This allowed me to work on one block at a time; cutting fabric, strip piecing and sewing together each block as far as was possible, and then machine pieced the quilt top without it being too much of a puzzle.
I finished the quilt by ditch stitching all seam lines, creating an all over grid of intersecting lines just 1.25" apart, and a texture that is lovely to touch and at the same time allows the quilt to drape softly. That is a lot of quilting lines!
I machine pieced the quilt top and re-worked my Scrappy Day Trip Quilt Pattern - which is a block based design with strip pieced sections - and I adjusted it for the extra trip - or additional round of squares - around the center square. This allowed me to work on one block at a time; cutting fabric, strip piecing and sewing together each block as far as was possible, and then machine pieced the quilt top without it being too much of a puzzle.
Click on any image for a larger view.
I finished the quilt by ditch stitching all seam lines, creating an all over grid of intersecting lines just 1.25" apart, and a texture that is lovely to touch and at the same time allows the quilt to drape softly. That is a lot of quilting lines!
For the back of the quilt I have used a single floral fabric with a soft pink background from the Vintage Daydream collection by Design by Dani for Riley Blake Designs. For the quilt binding I have used a black and white stripe fabric for my signature quilt finish. A simple black/white stripe binding works so well with a scrappy quilt.
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Many Trips Around the World Quilt - Work in Progress
Red Pepper Quilts Pattern Store
Many Trips Around the World Quilt - Work in Progress
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Thank you so much for stopping by and for scrolling through the many photos!
Have a great week,
Rita
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