When Kristy Lea, of Quiet Play and Make Modern, says she has a new fabric line coming out, I immediately start making plans for what I want to make with it. I love the bright colours and happy prints that Kristy creates!
I used Kristy's Create line to make my Level Up quilt and today I'm sharing a Divided quilt made with her brand new line, Dream, which is shipping to stores now. The Divided pattern is available as a PDF or a printed pattern.
Dream has so many gorgeous fabrics, it was hard to narrow down which ones I wanted for my new version of Divided. My usual inclination is to go with the blues, but I chose the pinks and a purple this time around and I love the result. That being said, I'll probably see about getting my hands on some of those blues before too long 😊Along with the Dream fabrics, I chose Blossom in black for the background. Blossom makes a great background because the tiny little flowers scattered over it add a nice bit of movement to the background without competing with the main design. Divided is an orange peel applique pattern, no curved piecing required! The pattern originally included only this throw size, but I'm working on updating it and it will also include a baby size option (I'm planning the fabric for my first baby sized version already!). The newly updated pattern will re-release on August 3rd. I'll have a discount code available exclusively for newsletter subscribers, so be sure to subscribe to The Bulletin to be notified when Divided is available and get the code. Edited to say, that pattern is now available! Visit my Etsy shop to get it and make your own Divided quilt.
I chose to stitch down my appliques with the quilting, rather than going around them once to stitch them down and again to quilt them.
I will admit that quite a few of them were coming partially unglued off the background by the time I got to them, because of all the folding and smooshing that happens during quilting. Because they are simple shapes, though, it was easy enough to just add a little more glue to the parts that were lifting up and stick them back down. For an applique design with more pieces, or smaller pieces, I would recommend using a fusible product rather than a glue stick if you want to stitch them down with the quilting.
The other thing about doing applique this way is that the edges will fray. Some people don't like that, but I like the extra bit of texture it adds to the quilt over time.
I stitched around the orange peels with my free motion foot with Aurifil 50 wt in black, going over each line twice. A wobble in a single line looks like a mistake, but go over it a second time, most likely adding more wobbles, and it somehow looks intentional. I tried to keep the stitching about ¼" from the edge, but that wobbled a little either way, too.
After saving all that time by only stitching around the appliques once, I decided the background needed to be stippled. I told myself that I would do a larger stipple than usual, so it wouldn't take too long, but I seem to be incapable of anything other than a tiny stipple. And so, tiny stipple it is. Which looks exactly how I wanted it to look and was definitely worth the hours I spent quilting it. With a solid pink on the back, that tiny stipple in black thread shows up beautifully.Long narrow sections like sashing, borders, or the stripe that divides this design and gives it its name, almost always end up quilted with wishbones. They're quick, simple and so relaxing to stitch. No two wishbones are exactly the same, but they're similar enough to look good.
The pop of teal with the pinks for the strip and binding is so delightful!
ReplyDeleteI totally agree with Yvonne. I love a fun, bright binding. This quilt really is joyful. Gorgeous on location shots too, ahhh.
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