Friday, October 25, 2013

A Finished Half Rectangle Quilt

A Finished Quilt in Pictures


My Half Rectangle Quilt is finished.  I am so very pleased with this quilt, and it has reaffirmed my love for simple traditional quilt blocks, solid fabrics and grid quilting. I don't work with solid fabrics often enough!

All solid fabrics are Robert Kaufman Kona Cottons
background fabric is Kona Cotton in Ash
The solid fabrics combined with the grid quilting has given this traditional quilt a modern look and a texture you just want to run your hand over. The intersecting quilting lines are spaced one inch apart and rather than mark lines on the quilt I prefer to use a quilting guide attached to the walking foot to trace seam lines and stitching lines. It works a treat.  



For the back of the quilt I have used a large scale print from the Glimma Collection by Lotta Jansdotter which nicely compliments the solid grey background fabric (Kona Cotton in Ash) and also adds a contrast in pattern.  


For binding fabric I have used Sunprint (Text) by Allison Glass, but rather than cut the binding strips from selvage to selvage I have instead cut strips from the length of the fabric thereby changing the direction of the text. 


This quilt is for sale. I have listed 
this Half Rectangle Quilt in my ETSY STORE.
You'll find the listing here:  Modern Patchwork Quilt


RELEVANT LINKS:
Half Rectangles - Work in Progress (includes quilt inspiration, and fabrics/rulers used).


Thank you for stopping by!
Rita

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