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.
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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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Thank you so much for stopping by and for scrolling through the many photos!
Have a great week,
Rita
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sweet! the backing makes it absolutely delicious!
ReplyDeleteAre the instructions for adding the “extra trip” in your pattern in you shop?
ReplyDeleteHi Pat - thank you for stopping by! The Scrappy Day Trip Quilt Pattern (pdf file) does not include instructions for the "extra trip". The concept is however the same - the Scrappy Day Trip Quilt is also block based, and each "block" is strip pieced and constructed as far as that is possible, before laying out and sewing the quilt top together. Rita
DeleteMagic! Love it!
ReplyDeleteJust one word.... beautiful!!
ReplyDeleteDo you explain in your PDF pattern how to sew this together without having to sew it in long diagonal strips? You made reference to adjusting the pattern so that you were able to work on one block at a time. I have looked closely at your white squares to see if they were made of triangles but I'm not seeing that. How did you do it? Thanking you in advance. I do just love this quilt and would love to make it also.
ReplyDeleteHi Maxine - the Scrappy Day Trip Quilt Pattern is not sewn in long diagonal rows. Instead it is a block based design with partial construction of each block - some of which is strip pieced. All patchwork pieces are squares (no triangles).
DeleteI hope that is helpful? Rita
Wow! This is one of your most beautiful quilts!! Well done. Those little pops of black are just the right touch.
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt. I can see some of the new fabrics too. Well done Rita
ReplyDeleteWhat a beautiful quilt............thanks for sharing !
ReplyDeleteSimply so beautiful. Thank you for sharing and the inspiration! ♡
ReplyDeleteThanks Rita for explaining. I'll buy your Scrappy Day Trip Pattern. I think I'm imagining how to do it, but I'll purchase the pattern, just so I know for sure.
ReplyDeleteYou have a wonderful sense of color. Thanks for sharing.
It's beautiful!
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