Quilt is approx. 54"w x 72"L Made from a couple of Roll Ups (aka Jelly Rolls) of the 2014 new Kona Cotton Solids - all 32 colors! For the front border & the back, I added Essex Yarn Dyed Linen in Denim to the mix. I love what that added to the quilt. Simple quilting on each side of the horizontal seams using Aurifil 50wt #2600 thread made it even easier. I used the same pattern as the one I designed for the Denver Girls quilts a couple of Christmases ago. The front of the quilt is made from 3 blocks that are 11 strips high by 48" across. Each color is separated by a 2" finished square of Kona Cotton Solid in White. The back has one of those blocks turned vertically. I'm in love with this color palette & am so pleased with how the colors fell (darker colors on the left & lighter colors on the right). I just used the colors as they were bundled & this is the result. Linked to: Anything Goes Monday - marelize-ries.blogspot.com/ - 10/13/14 Fabric Tuesday - quiltstory.blogspot.com/ - 10/14/14 Show & Tell Tuesday - ihavetosay.typepad.com/randi/ - 10/14/14 WIP Wednesday - www.freshlypieced.com/ - 10/15/14 Finish It Up Friday - crazymomquilts.blogspot.com/ - 10/17/14 Bloggers Quilt Festival - amyscreativeside.com/blog/ - 10/24/14

I think it was last fall, I saw a photo of Quilt Market and in that photo was hanging a quilt that I fell instantly in love with. It was in Michael Miller's booth, and so I found out that it was a pattern designed by Tara Faughnan, and available for free on Micheal Miller's website!  By the way, Tara has some other free patterns on their website, and can I say I just love everything she makes?  I can't find her blog anymore, but if you search for her online, you'll see that this quilt pattern is a smaller version of her much larger original quilt. The original quilt pattern was completely made from Cotton Couture Solids which is Michael Miller's line of solid fabric.  The pattern conveniently lists all the exact colors used.  Luckily I had a color card on hand from the Cotton Couture solids, so I used it to color match as closely as possible to fabrics I had on hand. I stuck with mostly solids, but I strayed over to subtle prints when I didn't have a solid in a close enough shade. This pattern is a lot of half square triangles, but I pieced them all last winter over the course of a few lazy days.  I used my one scrumptious piece of Velveteen as backing. Pinned it together and started handquilting it.  And then it sat and sat all summer, and now over the course of a few fall evenings I finished up the hand quilting. Let's just say that this quilt is SO my kind of quilt.  I just love it, the colors and the way they move around the quilt.  Thanks to Tara for such a great design! I had almost convinced myself to sell this quilt.  After all, I just don't need any more quilts!  And then I noticed something sad. Yes, that's right!  I had to piece the back, and that crazy Velveteen unraveled at one spot.  I pieced this back last winter, so I don't remember how I did it, although I know I will have used a 1/2" seam.  Obviously that wasn't enough, and I should have serged it as well as used a larger seam width!  Even if I could come up with a good way to fix it, I don't feel good about selling it as the seam runs the entire width of the quilt, and I don't know how close to unraveling the rest of the seam is. So it's an easy decision!  This one is staying here, and I'm really happy about it:)  I haven't decided yet how I'll fix it, but maybe I'll fray check heavily along the exposed seam and then hand sew a cute little patch over it?

Indian kantha quilt 100% cotton voile Kantha throw can be used as a bedcover, bed runner to brighten your home. As a blanket in sofa, chair or car to keep you warm. Hang on wall.

I do love working within parameters, and it's been a tradition of mine to do a bunch of quilts with the Pantone color(s) of the year since 2014. Over eight years, I've managed to make a lot of Pantone quilts. Even though I am a few months late in sharing my quilts from 2021, I did finish an entire series of quilts based on Illuminating and Ultimate Gray. I really think that the choice of gray and yellow for the colors of the year were meant to be a metaphor of the light at the end of the tunnel. I tried to incorporate that theme throughout all of the quilts that I made. I will post them now in the order that I finished them. First is "Resolution," a quilt that I finished way back in January of 2021 while I was participating in last year's Project Quilting. I didn't cut into any new fabric for this quilt, deciding instead to dump out my solid scrap bin and see what I had first. That act of dumping the bin led to the wonderful discovery of how nicely gray and yellow play with blue and turquoise. I saw the relationship when a piece of turquoise fell near the piles of gray and yellow that I was sorting. I played with the theme of "light at the end of the tunnel" by using yellow as the light. I used a piece of it in every block as the light. I think it's what makes this quilt work. This quilt is very small, only 18" x 18." My scrap usage determined the size as I used what I had. It is finished with quilting in monofilament thread.  Next up is "Ab Intra." This quilt also was made for a Project Quilting challenge last year. Ab intra is a Latin phrase that means "from within." I thought that I could combine the metaphor of "light at the end of the tunnel" with my personal ab intra, which is my faith. My faith illuminates my heart and mind and provides the light by which I see the world. My faith animates my life and gives purpose and meaning to my actions. My faith guides my steps along the path. I combined the gray and yellow with the colors of the world waking up in spring. It felt appropriate for what I was trying to say, that faith brings growth and life, and also for the time of year in which it was made. I finished this in April of 2021. I used the yellow in the center as an illuminating light within. Even though I used a heavy hand with the gray, I love how much life is in this quilt. It makes me happy. This quilt finished at 37" x 37" and is quilted with straight lines in golden thread.   I didn't begin work on the next Pantone quilt until December, but in the meantime I created an entire set of hand dyed fabrics to work with. Since my discovery of how nicely blueish turquoise played with the gray and yellow, I made sure to include some blues in my dyeing experiments. I also ended up with some hand dyed and hand painted fabric to use (shown in background). I had just poured the gray dye on a piece of fabric when I heard one of my children throw up from down the hall. Suffice it to say, that batch did not get stirred at all and ended up being a pretty unusable blotchy mess. I didn't want to waste it, so I used my Gelli plate to hand print a combed design over all of it. I think it ended up being one of my favorite fabrics in the set and was the basis for another quilt I'll show later. Thank goodness for improvisation!   The next quilt was turned into a pillow. My son's 6th grade teacher was married over the winter break and I only needed to take a quick glance at her online wedding registry to know that gray and yellow would work for her too. I used a very light touch with the yellow and had it act as a focal point. The strips of fabric were purposefully cut freehand and wobbly. I used hand dyed fabrics from my Pantone set. I really love the watercolor, sueded look. I finished it by stitching in the ditch with matching thread. This is an 18" pillow. I hope this pillow has a long and happy life with the newly married couple.   The next quilt is called "A Light at the End of the Tunnel" and is 40" x 40" I used the metaphor that I keep coming back to as an inspiration for the name and so many of the decisions that I made while constructing this quilt. Either gray or yellow is used in every block. The pattern is fixed but the blocks were constructed in a free pieced way.  It is made with a combination of hand dyed fabrics and shot cotton. I love the depth it gives. It is finished with matchstick quilting in gray thread and finished with a matched binding. I'll admit here that I had this quilt 75% of the way quilted in monofilament thread when I decided that the yellow was showing too many of the dark threads from the wrong side and that the problem was only made more obvious with every line of quilting I put in. I spent more than a week ripping out quilting only to start matchstick quilting it in gray thread. My back, neck and shoulders definitely paid the price for it, but I liked the quilt enough to work hard for the save. I'm much happier with the result. Imagining that better result was a light at the end of the tunnel for me while I was ripping! I definitely could have done without that real life example, though. 😏   The last quilt I'll share is "A Bright Spot in a Dark Time," which is 27" x 27." I made this quilt from the leftover scraps of the previous quilt. I also used hand dyed and hand printed fabric along with the scraps. I used the fabric I made from printed over top of the blotchy mess as my background. I included a shot of my fingers on the quilt. I noticed that I had inadvertantly left some of my painted fingerprints behind when I had printed the fabric. The temptation to use the "Jill has her fingerprints all over this quilt" joke was too strong, so I pieced it in. 😁 The whole concept for this quilt came from a comment made on my last blog post that had personal significance to me. That is where the title comes from. I also played with the light at the end of the tunnel theme that has stretched across the making of all of these quilts. This might be the eternal optimist in me, but I believe it's even more important to look for the light *during* the dark. Life isn't meant to be endured until it eventually gets good. If you look for it, there's light and good to be found in the darkest of times along the way. "The darker the night, the brighter the stars." This quilt was quilted in improv waves with monofilament thread and finished with a matched binding.   Thanks for reading the whole round up of Pantone quilts. I'm trying to make good on my promise of blogging more. 💖 If you are interested in reading EVEN MORE, the IG Quilt Fest, hosted by Amy's Creative Side, is currently happening on Instagram. I've made a commitment to post every day in the month of March. Who knew there was so much to say about quilts? You can find me and follow along at @pieladyquilts.

Here is an (incomplete) list of quilts that you can make with 10 Fat Quarters! If you click on the link, it will take you to the page where you can purchase and/or download the pattern. For a list of all bundles with 10 Fat Quarters, click here. Baby/ Crib Fat Quarter Dash Quilt by Quilty Love Photo Credit: @emily_dennis_ Finished Size: 40💖10 Fat Quarters#knittingproject #blanketpatterns #knittingideas #knittingfun

This Modern Quilting Series is looking at using solid colors throughout the month of April to show how they are used in Modern Quilting.

It's been awhile since I've made an Ernie Quilt and it's one of my favorite patterns because I just love making quilts with 2.5" strips.  I've had the Kaffe Fassett Shot Cotton and Woven Stripes strips die-cut and ready to sew since last year and finally had the opportunity to make this quilt since buying my new, sweet, very portable Juki HZL-70 HWA sewing machine which meant I am now able to sew in the kitchen while watching TV, a cause for much of my quilting downtime. I posted several times about Ernie quilts HERE, THERE and IN BETWEEN. While my Postcard from Sweden Quilt was being made, (you can read about it here), I started working on the Kaffe Stripe Quilt because I was loving the Shot Cottons and knew I had this project on the back burner--talk about constant Kaffe.  I consider this to be a DREAMi project and finally have something to cross out from one of my project lists I made too many of for this year. I have to show you my "No Rose, You Didn't" backing for this quilt.  I do not like making pieced backings. To me it's just like making another quilt top and when I'm in a hurry to finish a quilt, I don't want to sew another quilt top.  I have a pile of quilt tops laying around in my studio and I knew laying in the pile was an 84" square top made from big patches of Kaffe fabric which may have been a modified Turning Twenty pattern, a pattern when it was first released, I couldn't stop making them.  It took me a couple of hours to remove some of the rows of this quilt top so I could use it for the backing since I really didn't have anything else in my stash vault that would be as neat as this quilt top was and besides I've come down with a slight case of not wanting to buy any new fabric (I hope this "virus" goes away real soon). Who knew five years ago I was making a future quilt backing when I made this top.  I just love the big purple cabbages. I'm thinking I may have made several quilt backings already and may be making more now without knowing it. I don't usually talk about the color thread I use for machine quilting because I not very good at choosing a color and I mostly quilt with a light gray.  I knew gray wasn't going to work well with this quilt and luckily I had in my Connecting Threads Essential Thread stash (no affiliate link here) a spool of the Fawn thread which is an apricot beige thread which worked very well with blending in with the many colors in this quilt.  I am loving the quilting which sewed like butter on my Juki 2010Q and I could have finished the quilting in one sitting if I didn't have to go to bed at 3am in the morning--I didn't want to stop.  The quilt is bound with a solid Chartreuse Shot Cotton which was the only solid color that I had enough for the binding and fortunately worked very well. I was really hoping to take a perfect photo of my Kaffe Fassett Stripe Quilt while in Myrtle Beach; one with it laying on the sand, sunset on the sea with a whale breaching in the background, perfectly centered on the horizon (just for Sandra) but it was not to be had--the wind was something fierce--20 to 30 mph.  It wasn't fun for the Master Quilt Holder on the balcony nor could the quilt stay on the railing at the beach. The best photos were taken either in the elevator lobby or inside the condo where we were staying.  Plus, there was no way I was going to lay it on the sand since I had visions of it parasailing over the Atlantic Ocean and onto the whale's back (again this vision prompted by Sandra's request and maybe to make it a tale, Louise (Quilt Odyssey) will rescue it during her sea travels). I had planned to sew the binding while traveling to Myrtle Beach, but I ended up finally finishing the quilt right before we left (I'm beginning to like the look of machine sewn binding).  I definitely wanted to take photos of this quilt and my Postcard from Sweden Quilt here in warm, sunny weather since we're experiencing far too little of it in the Midwest as you can see from this photo taken on a snowy Sunday, the day before we left.  I really put the Master Quilt Holder to the test when I kept repeating to make sure the quilt does not touch the ground and get wet.  He did a practice stoop down before we went outside.  I think the quilt photographed better in Myrtle Beach, despite the wind, don't you agree? I do hope you check out the links for the Ernie Quilts, especially the first one since it's about my dear friend Mary Etherington who started me on my Ernie adventures.  Like the old commercial saying goes "Try It, You'll Like It!". Hubby and I will be traveling back home this Friday and look what awaits me when I return, my Dot Dot Dash blocks from Christa Watson's Piece and Quilt with Precuts book which were made during upstairs sewing time with my sweet little Juki. Also, Sandra of mmm! Quilts will be starting her Second Annual Quilt Along: Adult Plus Playtime Quilt, (you can read about it here) on April 24th. I had a fun time doing her Free Fall QAL last year and this year's pattern is not going to disappoint since I'll be using some of my Alison Glass Chroma fabrics. I'm looking forward to getting back into the groove since there's not much sewing happening in Myrtle Beach because I wanted to give my hands some rest. And one more thing, this Sunday, April 22nd, I'll be posting my project for the 30 Quilt Block in 30 Days Blog Hop so I hope you'll check it out. (you can see it here) Linking up with:  My Quilt Infatuation, Needle and Thread Thursday,  Crazy Mom Quilts, Finish It Up Friday, Confessions of a Fabric Addict, Can I Get a Whoop Whoop Friday, Busy Hands Quilts, Finish or Not Friday

Do you ever buy a fat quarter bundle and stash it away because you love the colors but you aren't quite sure what to do with it? What am I saying, if you are a quilter then of course you have done this. That's exactly how this quilt came to be. I finally had an aha moment and knew what to use my muted solid bundle for.

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