Wednesday 11 February 2015

The KLT Quilt

The idea for this quilt came from a Sizzix die  - the chevron - though we all know the shape is a parallelogram don't we Helen!

I bought the die in about August/September last year and needed to test it to see if it worked.  

I chose to test it on my growing collection of hand screen printed Karen Lewis Textiles (formerly known as Blueberry Park - bit like Prince you know!)  




I tried out a few different layouts 



 Before I chose this one







which paired them with my supply of charm squares and it was all going well!

I even wrote a tutorial of sorts here in case you want to make your own version.


Imagine the hours of pleasure I had matching or contrasting Karen's lovely prints to my charm squares...I got quite carried away to the extent that Karen suggested my quilt was surely big enough ...!










I started squaring up the edges 



...forgetting they were supposed to be this way round.









I got around to sorting it all out into a quilt shape this month with some partial blocks...




Into a lovely quilt top I was very pleased with




I chose a backing fabric by Lotta Jansdotter (with a bit of text fabric sliced in to make it big enough)as I thought Karen would approve.   Well Saffy liked it!




And yesterday at about midnight I finished stitching down my quiet binding.




And here is my KLT (Karen Lewis Textiles) quilt - can't call it chevron as that annoys Helen too much (maths teacher)!





At the end of next month I will be linking this quilt up to



2015 FAL at On the Windy Side

23 comments:

  1. It's so beautiful!! Tempted to make one myself but have wips to finish first! Love the backing choice too!

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  2. Wow! What a great quilt! Love those fabrics.:)

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  3. What a neat block. The fabrics are wonderful and I love how the charms are a focal point of each "square-in-a-chevron" ;)

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  4. I love the pattern of this quilt! And the final result as well! Thanks for the tutorial.

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  5. It turned out very lovely N. Lots of pretty colours to look at.

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  6. Totally gorgeous!
    Have loved seeing it grow on IG. Will it be yours?

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  7. You're doing it again - riding that wave of quilt finishes! Brilliant! Jxo

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  8. Congratulation on the lovely finish. You said you finished the binding at midnight last nigh? Ah! Ha! I knew you didn't sleep lol. I ♥ this quilt. The fabric is so interesting. Great work Nicky.

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  9. I've never seen this pattern before. It turned out great. I really like all the different colors and patterns in the material. Wonderful quilt.

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  10. super quilt, and it sounds like it was a fun project matching up colours and different fabrics! You can't beat just playing with fabric choices sometimes!!

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  11. gorgeous!!
    love all the little feature charm squares.

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  12. Wow, I think this may be my favourite quilt of yours!

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  13. So pretty! I just finished a conversation with someone about the memo that all cats must have received about sleeping on in-progress quilts! I see yours got the memo as well!

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  14. I liked that layout best, too, and you made such a lovely quilt. Thanks for sharing all the process photos. It's so fun to see what your were thinking and how you stepped through the work.

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  15. Lots of lovely colours in there, I'm still hoarding mine...

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  16. This is so beautiful, your ability to place all the colours is just so excellent.

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  17. It is gorgeous and looks like it was a lot of fun to make.

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  18. It's a beautiful beautiful quilt.

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