A Low Volume Herringbone Quilt

A Finished Quilt and as always lots of photos ~

A Low Volume Herringbone Quilt
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My Low Volume Herringbone Quilt is finished! I have thoroughly enjoyed making this quilt and I am pleased to have added a new technique to my sewing repertoire in the process. This was my first time piecing together a quilt top with partial seams, and while a Herringbone Quilt (with all part-sewn seams) is maybe not a slow/easy introduction to partial seams, I don't mind diving in head first. Just remember to take it one step at a time and it will all work out just fine!

For piecing this quilt top I followed the instructions from the book Modern Quilt Magic: 5 Parlor Tricks to Expand Your Piecing Skills by Victoria Findlay Wolfe. The step by step instructions were clear and easy to follow. Once I got the general gist of the process there was no looking back and the quilt top came together well.

I love working with my low volume fabric stash so with this quilt I was literally in fabric heaven. Low volume fabric to me is a design on a white/light background and as you can see my version of low volume is in fact quite colorful (and busy!). And because I love small patchwork piecing for an all over scrappy quilt, I have chosen to work with relatively small fabric pieces (each fabric strips was cut 2 inches x 4.5 inches).

The quilt has been quilted by professional long arm quilter - Karen Terrens from Quilts on Bastings - with an edge to edge pantograph featuring a Denyse Schmidt style loop-de-loop design. I have used my preferred batting - Warm and White by the Warm Company - a bleached white cotton batting that is ideal for a quilt made using white/light fabric, and also gives the quilt a low loft result that I really like.

For the back of the quilt I have my usual backing fabric: Newsprint from the Story collection by Carrie Bloomston and the binding fabric is a soft pink and white stripe by Moda Fabrics (Essentially Yours in Baby Pink).

QUILT DETAILS

Low Volume Herringbone Quilt

The finished measures 50 inches x 60 inches.

540 patchwork pieces.

(9 vertical "herringbone" rows - each with 60 fabric strips).

Each fabric strips was cut 2" x 4.5".

180+ different low volume fabrics were used to make this quilt top.

Fabrics:

Quilting Cotton, Liberty of London, reclaimed vintage fabrics.

Machine Piecing Instructions:

Machine piecing instructions from the book:

Modern Quilt Magic: by Victoria Findlay Wolfe.

Batting:

Warm & White batting from The Warm Company;

a low loft batting perfect for use with low volume and bright white fabrics.

Quilting:

Quilted by professional long arm machine quilter ~

Karen Terrens from Quilts on Bastings

This quilt was sold prior to listing in my Etsy Store

 and prior to publishing this blog post.

If you are interested in purchasing one of my quilts

 - even one that I am still working on -

please don't hesitate to contact me by email.

RELEVANT LINKS:
Low Volume Herringbone Quilt - Work in Progress
Book: Modern Quilt Magic by Victoria Findlay Wolfe
RPQ Quilts with Low Volume Fabrics:
Half Square Triangle Variation Quilt - May 2016
Flowering Snowball Quilt - November 2016
Drunkard's Path Circle Quilt - June 2014
Equilateral Triangle Quilt - May 2014
Strips and Bricks Quilt - December 2013
Modern I-Spy Quilt - May 2013

This week I am working on using up all the left over strips of fabric from this low volume quilt. And there were many left over strips of fabric! Well, enough to just about make another such quilt. Let's say that my new project does involve sewing more partial seams, however not as many as was required to piece this quilt!

Thank you for stopping by,
Rita

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