I’m so pleased to show you my first quilt finish of 2013.
So prepare yourselves; there are a lot of pictures!
I have always loved rainbows. And this quilt packs a rainbow punch.
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| Rainbow Plus, finished! |
On the back I added a rainbow strip. The gray is Kona Coal. You can really see the quilting on the back. I quilted with echoed waves throughout, changing the scale and the direction of the waves randomly. The back was quilted with coal thread.
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| Rainbow Plus, back |
The front quilting uses 5 different variegated threads. Here I wanted the quilting to echo the rainbow fabrics. But I didn’t want to be committed to matching the threads exactly. So, the threads move in color as the fabrics move: from red to orange to yellow to green to blue and finally to purple.
The picture below exemplifies what I mean.
In the yellow plus especially, you can see how the thread isn’t yellow but it is green in the lower half. In the upper half of the yellow plus, the thread moves to orange.
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| Quilting detail |
I used awesome shot cottons. These are Oakshotts. I still have scraps! Squeee!
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| More back detail |
The quilt lives happily on the back of my couch.
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| Today’s an orange – pink day! Momma is happy. |
It is much like a mood ring as I can switch which colors
I want showing just by folding it differently.
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| Today’s a purple blue day! Momma is still happy, just more pensive. |
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| Maddie dog photo bombing like she owns the place. |
A few more compulsory quilt shots.
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| Quilt roll |
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| Quilt chair |
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| Sunshine on a quilt makes me content |
I’ll be linking up to Amanda Jean’s Finish it Up Friday and A Lovely Year of Finishes.
Thank you for stopping by! Have a great weekend!
Great rainbow QUILT!
That is so pretty! I love you can change it with your mood – I totally do that with my sofa quilt too! Great shots 🙂
Rainbow plus is a gorgeous quilt! Congrats on the finish 🙂
Gorgeous! I love how you laid out your colors. Great finish!
so beautiful! I love the way you can change the colours you display!
Awesome quilt and quilting!! You do beautiful work!!!
I LOVE it! The quilting is awesome — I hope I get to see it in person soon.
Great idea, a Mood Quilt!
Your quilt is amazing! I am so impressed with the thought that went into the thread and the quilting. Just beautiful!
Looks great. Congrats on the finish
Gorgeous!! And I love the quilting design you chose. I confess, I might be stealing that soon. I'm not one for rainbow stuff normally but that is a beautiful quilt.
Love it! Beautiful work!
Wow! Awesome-ly beautiful quilt! Lovely post to go with! Especially love the mood-ring-couch-fold business 🙂
Love it! Love the versality at the back of your sofa!
I want this quilt so much! Love everything about it, especially the quilting.
Sorry to be so late to the party, Becca — I'm catching up on all my blogs from the weekend! This is beautiful. I love plus quilts and rainbows, so this works for me on every level. Love your quilting too!
That is so gorgeous. I love rainbow quilts and the plus quilts are starting to be a favorite the more I see them! I'm impressed that you coordinated the quilting thread through the quilt. So worth it.
This is just absolutely beautiful! I particularly love the quilting. And isn't Kona Coal just the most wonderful gray? Wonderful work.
I love everything about this quilt!! Great fabric selection and placement. I love the wavy quilting!
This is stunning – love the shot cottons and your quilting!
I can't believe I missed this quilt the first time around! It is stunning and the quilting is amazing! I love how it performs a double function as a quilty mood ring!:D