Painted Cosmos

Correct me if I’m wrong, but I don’t think I ever shared the finished quilt I made for Laura Gunn for her booth at Quilt Market. Β I know I gave you all sneak peaks, but here at last I’m finally showing the end product.

Painted Cosmos

I used her new line Cosmos and her Painter’s Canvas line. Β I created a fairly simple design with half square triangles because I really wanted to focus on showing off Laura’s Fabric. Β It’s an interesting task to create a pattern to show off the fabric rather than using the fabric to show off a design.

I did all of my own quilting which you can probably tell but it was a stretch for me. Β I used a bunch of different free motion techniques in different parts of the design to emphasize the pattern.

Painted Cosmos

There’s nothing like making a whole quilt to really help you practice a certain pattern. Β I would definitely do them all again…but some will take me more time than others to perfect. Β It’s also quite the learning process to discover what kind of quilting design looks good in a particular part of the quilt. Β Actually, at the prompting of my favorite quilter, Krista Withers/lolablueocean, I recently purchased a large piece of plexiglass and some dry erase markers so I can practice how the designs will look on the actual fabric at scale. Β I think that will help me a lot!

Laura took the picture above when she received it and it was so fun to see it styled by someone else! Β I was so used to seeing a flat view of it, that it was fun to see it all draped and relaxed. Β And then of course it was so fun to see some pictures from quilt market. Β Someday I’ll make it there too, but in the meantime, it was certainly fun to see something I made just hanging out in a booth. πŸ˜‰

Picture by Kimberly Jolly of The Fat Quarter Shop

And I do believe that this fabric is already available for purchase! Β So run out and get some and play with pretty fabrics. Β Maybe you’ll want to use it on my Down the Rabbit Hole quilt. Β πŸ˜‰

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