Good morning and happy Tuesday, my lovelies! It's a rainy spring day here in Charlotte, North Carolina, and the grass looks so vividly green against the overcast skies. My favorite kind of weather -- cool but not cold, new life springing up all around me, yet it's not such a beautiful day that you have to feel guilty for squirreling away in the studio instead of being outdoors. It's drizzling out there, but it's dry in the sewing room where all the good fabric is waiting for me!
Holly's (Not So) Little Ruby Layer Cake Quilt
Speaking of all the good fabric... Today I'm sharing my client Holly's enormous 100" x 100" quilt made from layer cakes (packages of precut 10" squares of coordinating print fabrics) of the Little Ruby fabric collection by Bonnie and Camille for Moda Fabrics. Doesn't this fabric collection channel the spirit of Spring? I did find several Etsy sellers who have Little Ruby precuts available here (affiliate link) in case you can't find them at your local quilt shop.
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| Little Ruby Layer Cakes + Winter Flower E2E Quilting Design |
I don't know the name of the pattern Holly used to make her quilt, but every time I see a quilt like this I think "Why don't I ever make quilts like this?!" When you have great fabric prints, a simple patchwork pattern shows them off so beautifully. I love how the large print squares are separated by frames of white. My cerebral wheels are spinning, y'all -- I have a couple of fabulous large scale print fabrics stashed away, waiting for me to figure out how to show them off in a quilt.
This King quilt is for Holly's guest bedroom. Won't this be a wonderful treat for her overnight visitors? We used Hobbs Tuscany 80/20 Cotton/Wool batting for this quilt (affiliate link), a batting that I've only recently started stocking. I like it -- it's an 80/20 blend so it's similar to the Hobbs and Quilters Dream 80/20 Cotton/Poly battings I carry, but the wool seems to give it just a bit more loft resilience than the cotton/poly blend. Like the other wool battings I carry, the Hobbs cotton/wool blend batting is resin bonded to prevent the wool fibers from bearding through the finished quilt the way that cheaper wool battings do. The cotton/wool blend has a lower loft -- and a lower price point -- than 100% wool batting, so it's not going to replace 100% wool in my inventory, but it's not going to replace my go-to 80/20 cotton poly batting, either. Some people have wool allergies, and wool battings are less forgiving than cotton or polyester if someone throws a quilt in a hot dryer after laundering. But I love having so many different choices so we can get exactly the look, feel, and laundering options we want for every quilt!
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| 100 x 100 Little Ruby Layer Cake Quilt with Winter Flower E2E Quilting Design |
