It is back to basics for me this week! Keeping it simple gives me the greatest pleasure in sewing and I could not resist turning a beautiful piece of grey chambray fabric that I have had in my fabric stash for some time, into a Checkerboard Quilt with luxury Liberty of London fabric to add brilliant color and pattern.
There is comfort in the familiar rhythm that is repeat patchwork sewing and I thoroughly enjoy piecing this traditional patchwork quilt design - A Checkerboard Quilt - and scrap quilts with lots of small pieces! This quilt was strip-pieced and I followed the same piecing method as set out in my Checkerboard Strip Piecing Tutorial (I cut my fabric strips 2.5" x 11" and cross cut the strip sets at 2.5" inch intervals). I also spent quite some time randomizing the strip-pieced sets by taking strip sets apart, as well as adding individual patchwork pieces (for example all fussy cut fabrics).
My collection of Liberty of London Tana Lawn fabrics is significant, and I really do love working with these fabrics. For this quilt I have used many of my stashed Liberty fabrics plus I have added a few quilting weight cottons because I cannot resist adding a stash basic - dots + gingham in particular - to each and every quilt that I make. I love stash basics! The gingham fabric used in this quilt are in fact pieces of reclaimed fabric from men's shirts.
QUILT DETAILS
Chambray + Liberty of London Checkerboard Quilt
Quilt top measures 56 inches x 72 inches.
100+ different fabrics.
I have made 63 16-patch blocks.
A total of 1008 patches of fabric (36 rows of 28 squares).
Each finished square measures 2 inches x 2 inches.
Printed fabric:
A mix of Liberty Tana Lawn, quilting cotton, and reclaimed shirt fabrics.
Background Fabric:
2½ yards chambray fabric in black by Lecien.
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Working on this quilt has brought some sunshine to our wintry days. Yes, it is Winter here and while we don't have much to complain about - it certainly doesn't snow here in Melbourne - it only takes two overcast days in a row and we start with all the gloomy feelings!
I have made good progress on this quilt and hope to have more to show you soon!
Thank you for stopping by,
Rita
RELEVANT LINKS:
The finished Chambray + Liberty of London Checkerboard Quilt
Checkerboard Strip Piecing Tutorial
Liberty of London and Chambray Quilt - The Blues
More Liberty of London Quilt and Projects
More Quilt and Projects using reclaimed fabrics
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