Alright you guys — wanna know how many personal quilts, or personal sewing projects of ANY kind, I finished in 2024? ZERO. But 2025 is a brand-new year full of fresh possibilities and lots of pent-up creative energy. I quilted a quilt for myself yesterday!
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| 42 x 45 Untitled, from Maria Shell Improv Workshop |
It’s just a small baby quilt, a way to use up one of the improvisationally pieced striped units I made in my Zoom workshop with Maria Shell back in September, along with some smaller yardage pieces from my stash. The irregularity of wonky improv piecing looks very child-friendly to me, and that inspired me to use an allover quilting design (Color B2B by Anne Bright) that I’ve owned for several years but was never able to talk a client into using on a quilt.
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| Color B2B Quilting Design by Anne Bright with YLI 40 Tex Cotton Thread in Rio de Janeiro |
I love how it turned out! I chose YLI 40 Tex Cotton Thread in variegated Rio de Janeiro after carefully checking that every shade in this rainbow thread was a match to fabrics I used in my pieced stripe unit. I wanted something with an equal amount of contrast against both the lime green and the cherry red fabrics and I’m very happy with how it turned out even though cotton thread is a linty beast to work with! My lint brush got to see lots of action.
