Hey Friends! My Back Door Beauty quilt is UFO quilt #8 for 2023! It's been a few months since finishing a UFO quilt top.
The last UFO completed was Scrap Buster Baskets on April 15. If you would like to see more of this quilt you can find it here. Sometime near the end of the year I need to tally up how many quilts were finished in 2023. I made a few gingham quilts, quilts for the grands, and charity quilts. I'm pretty sure it will be the most I've ever made in one year. Most of them were simple quilts with simple quilting but it still counts as a quilt.
After months of simple quilts with simple quilting I was ready to quilt something to death. I think the quilting on this one falls somewhere in between quilted to death and lightly quilted. Quilting inside the seed applique and diamond shape surrounded by feathers would have tip the scale to quilted to death.
One of my favorite things about a single color backing is the quilting. Had I used a print fabric for the baking, the quilting would be hidden by the print.
The print fabrics on the front are from a line called Miss Kate by Bonnie and Camille. I had planned to use the scraps from the layer cake to make the binding. While looking for the layer cake I found this Bonnie and Camille gingham. You all know how I feel about gingham, right? Well if you're new here, let me fill you in on gingham. It's the best! I love it. Every quilt needs gingham in somewhere. And it is most definitely the best binding option for almost all quilts.
The one thing that is really hard to see in these pictures is the light colored fabric used in this quilt. The background for the quilt is a white with light gray crosshatching. It reads gray in my studio. The backing was made with two scraps of 108" wide backing fabrics. One was white and the other is cream. If you scroll back up and look at the backing you can see the bottom half the the quilt is cream.
I do have one regret with this quilt... I wish it were bigger so I could put this little cutie on my bed. I love it!
Until next time...
I hope you find time to stitch up something sweet!
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Its a beautiful quilt and the quilting is just what it needed. Great job!
ReplyDeleteThis is a beautiful quilt, your quilting is awesome! You have a good eye for the quilt and great talent!
ReplyDeleteIt is a cutie! Congrats on getting this UFO out where you can now enjoy it.
ReplyDeleteYour quilting is gorgeous, it really compliments your applique work. Kaye M
ReplyDeleteThank you! Feather quilting is my go to when I don't know what else to do....and it's my favorite!
DeleteLovely, Lea Anne! Your quilting is wonderful.xx
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