Alice Caroline Exclusive Liberty Quilt

QUILT DETAILS

Alice Caroline Exclusive Liberty Quilt 

The finished quilt measures 45 inches x 55 inches.

Features Alice Caroline Exclusive Liberty of London Tana Lawn

Batting: Low loft cotton batting.
Quilting: Straight vertical lines spaced ½" apart.

I have to say, I was rather thrilled to receive a bundle of Alice Caroline's exclusive Liberty of London Tana Lawn! Figuring out what to do with them however was a lot more complicated than the folding and petting, and photographing the pretty bundle.

I wanted to feature the individual exclusive prints in a rainbow of colors, and keep strong/distinct lines rather than the blurring of the prints. In order to do so I have added a selection of Liberty Tana Lawn solids. I only recently discovered that there is quite the range of Liberty Tana Lawn solids, and these plus several exclusive plain colorways to complement these exclusive prints are also available from Alice Caroline - available here. (The only non-Liberty fabric included in the quilt top is the linen look fabric - Robert Kaufman Essex Yarn Dyed Homespun in Natural).

The design is simple, with alternating rectangles sewn together in vertical rows, then pieced together to complete the quilt top. All the rectangles are 5" (finished) in height and vary in width from 1½ inches x 4 inches (finished).

The quilt has been quilted with closely spaced lines - ½ inch apart - and I have matched the top thread to the color of the quilt, changing thread for each vertical row. It keeps things interesting when quilting so many straight lines!

For the back of the quilt I have used a pretty small scale floral print ~ Meadow in Spring by Sarah Jane from the Best of Sarah Jane collection for Michael Miller. For the binding I have used June's Meadow in Pink from the Alice Caroline Exclusive Liberty collection. I love Liberty fabric for binding! 

The quilt is so soft! And together the combination of Liberty lawn fabric and low loft cotton batting the finished quilt means the quilt is super light in weight.

Thank you for stopping by! And of course a big thank you to the team at Alice Caroline for the opportunity to work with these beautiful fabrics. I have enjoyed making this quilt and the prized scrappy pieces left over from my fabric bundle will no doubt become part of more quilts.

More soon.
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Alice Caroline Exclusive Liberty Fabric
Liberty of London - plains/solid lawn fabric

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Sunday Stash #449 Alice Caroline Exclusives - Liberty of London

Alice Caroline 

Exclusive Liberty of London Tana Lawn

I am a huge Liberty of London fan and have added pieces of luxury Liberty to my stash over a long period of time - like a decade - and have quite a variety of prints on hand, albeit they are small pieces, but they are enough. I was however super pleased to receive a bundle of this glorious Alice Caroline Exclusive collection courtesy of Alice Caroline! 

Alice Caroline recently launched brand new and exclusive Liberty collection of fabrics. The collection has been designed in collaboration with the Liberty design team. Alice has chosen her favourite prints and created a collection of gorgeous new colorways which are now available exclusively from the Alice Caroline website.

There are 12 beautiful and popular Liberty prints which have been recoloured to create a stunning Liberty rainbow in dusty tones. The rainbow tones in this new collection are pretty soft pastels that still have the hallmark of strong Liberty design and colour. I love seeing these classic prints re-colored, and I am especially pleased with the new Betsy prints in Purple and Pink/Gold (pictured above), neither of which I would normally choose - purple and metallics on fabrics don't usually appeal to me - but these are so pretty (and the metallic gold is very subtle)!

ALICE CAROLINE EXCLUSIVE COLLECTION 
available only from Alice Caroline.

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Enjoy Sunday!

Rita

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Sunday Stash #448 Play All Day by American Jane

Play All Day by American Jane 

for Moda Fabrics

I love this new collection by American Jane (Sandy Klop)! Play All Day is a collection of reproduction prints in classic primary colors with all the charm of a bygone era. I had trouble choosing a favorite print for there are quite a few designs that I am partial to, including these beautiful reproduction floral prints...

The collections consists of 26 prints plus 5 panels (not shown here) - 6 unique designs in up to 5 color ways. There are multiple floral prints, as well as checks, as well as posies, and  pindots. All are excellent small scale designs that are perfect stash builders and easy to use in your sewing projects.

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Rita

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Vintage Linens Patchwork Quilt - A Finished Quilt

It feels great to have finished this quilt which has been languishing as a quilt top since 2014! I usually like to finish what I start, and don't tend to work on more than one (or two) projects at a time. It's what works best for me; although as you can see I am not immune to setting a project aside, and letting it sit unattended for quite some time. 

As mentioned in my previous blog post featuring this quilt I have finished this quilt by using a light weight cotton batting called QuiltLite. Quiltlite is a woven cotton fabric similar to a loosely woven flannel fabric (see photo below); it offers the presence of batting without adding bulk, gives a lovely soft drape, and makes this quilt perfect as a light weight Summer coverlet.

QuiltLite Batting

I am a pin baster and I have basted this quilt in same way as I do for all of my quilts, with backing fabric and batting taped to the floor, then pinning the quilt top firmly on top, starting with the outer edges of the quilt top first (I have briefly described my basting process in this blog post here).

I have then quilted the quilt by stitching evenly spaced - edge to edge - vertical lines across the width of the quilt. To give the quilting lines/stitches more definition I have used a heavier weight thread (Aurifil 28wt - the grey spool) for the top thread, and Aurifil 40wt thread in the bobbin. My sewing machine seems to like this combination of threads, and together with a relatively long stitch length (4.0) the stitches add a subtle point of interest in amongst the busy floral prints.

The back of the quilt features a single text fabric ~ Newsprint in White from the Dreamer collection by Carrie Bloomston  ~ an old favorite.

And for the first time I have added a faced binding to a quilt. Faced binding is similar to traditional quilt binding except that the binding is turned completely to the back so there is no frame around the edge of a quilt. There are lots of Faced Binding Tutorials available online with step by step instructions and I have taken snippets of information from several online tutorials (see Relevant Links below), then trialled the technique on a mini-quilt (10 inch square). This helped me to visualize the process and gave me the confidence to go ahead and and finish this quilt with a faced binding.

I am really pleased with how this (new to me) faced binding technique. It wasn't difficult and I will definitely use this technique more often to finish off my quilts!

The  binding fabric is a soft pink and white stripe by Moda Fabrics (Essentially Yours in Baby Pink).

QUILT DETAILS:

Vintage Linens Patchwork Quilt

The finished quilt measures 63 inches x 78 inches.

Fabrics Used:

All fabrics used to piece the quilt top are reclaimed vintage sheets.

Backing Fabric:

 Newsprint in White from the Dreamer collection by Carrie Bloomston.

Batting:

QuiltLite - low loft cotton batting.
THREAD for quilting:
Aurifil 28wt thread (the gray spool) for quilting:
 (28wt top thread - 40wt thread in the bobbin).

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Thank you for stopping by!
Rita

RELEVANT LINKS:
Vintage Linens Patchwork Quilt - Work in Progress
More RPQ Projects with Vintage Linens

Faced Binding Tutorials:

• http://www.terryaskeartquilts.com/Studio/tips-tutorials-and-more/my-new-favorite-quilt-facing-technique/
• https://thesillyboodilly.blogspot.com/2012/09/tutorial-super-duper-easy-way-to-face.html

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Sunday Stash #447 Storybook Ranch by Whistler Studios

Storybook Ranch by Whistler Studios

for Windham Fabrics

I continue to enjoy working collecting and working with 30's prints! It is the vibrant colors and small scale prints that I have fallen for and because they work so well with a range of modern designer fabrics - which feature so strongly in my fabric stash - that make these such a great addition. The perfect stash basics.

The complete Storybook Ranch collection consists of consists of 33 different fabrics featuring 11 different designs in up to four different colorways. It is a big bundle of 1930's storybook prints with rocking horses, rose bandana's, spurs, playful pigs and more.

I have added a small selection of those prints that drew in my eye to stash. See here for the complete Storybook Ranch collection. How cute are those happy little pigs?

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Rita

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Vintage Linens Patchwork Quilt - Work in Progress

Recently I spent some time sorting out my fabric stash; tidying, folding, editing. My sewing space was out of control! It's a task that is time consuming and usually things get a whole lot worse before it starts to look better. During this process I came across this quilt top that I pieced in July 2014, and at the time I even prepared this blog post (as follows) complete with photos. For one reason or another the blog post was never published, and the quilt top was stashed away and not thought of again. Till now. 

The plan for this quilt top is to experiment with a light weight batting called Quiltlite and then add a faced-binding to complete it. Quiltlite is a cotton woven fabric similar to a loosely woven flannel fabric; it offers the presence of batting without adding bulk, which will make this quilt perfect as a light weight Summer coverlet. Faced binding is similar to traditional quilt binding except that the binding is turned completely to the back so there is no frame around the edge of a quilt. I like to try out new - to me - things! The photos and text that follow are from the original blog post as written in 2014:

Late June (2014) I went to the Melbourne Craft and Quilt Fair and there I picked up a layer cake (10.5 inch squares) of vintage reclaimed bed linens from The Crafty Squirrel. Included in my layer cake were up to 50 or so different pieces of vintage sheets, all florals and wildly colorful. Blue, green, yellow, brown, purple. pink. Cheerful to say the least.

The layer cake never left my cutting table, and one night I broke into it, cut all of the pieces into four equal squares (5.25" squares) and stitched up this quilt top. I had great intentions of adding more fabrics and playing with a more sophisticated design, but right then and there I decided that these fabrics needed to stay together, that there was more than enough variety and simple patchwork was all that was needed. Done.

Quilt Top measures approximately 63 inches x 78 inches.

The fabrics are all reclaimed vintage linens/sheets and as such the quality of fabrics vary. Obviously some are in better condition than others, but all are freshly laundered and in perfect condition for use in this way. I love that most of the pieces are still saturated in color and it was a bonus to find so many different designs in the one bundle. Even the "uglier" designs look pretty in patchwork ...

.... evoking fond memories and wishing for warm Summer days.

I am looking forward to finishing this project with light weight batting and trying out a different binding technique. 

More soon,

Rita

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More RPQ Projects with Vintage Linens

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