A good friend commented on a photo of the mystery quilt I was working on to ask when I was making her a quilt. She’s not just a ‘good friend’: she’s been a friend through some difficult times. She’s been my friend when I’ve probably been pretty impossible person be be a friend with. But she’s crazy enough to have stuck with me, and I appreciate it more than I could tell her. So I made her a quilt.
She wouldn’t give many any ideas of what she’d like other than bright colours and no pink. I had a billion different ideas, and narrowed them down to 2. I finally settled on using the purse strings block developed by My Quilt Infatuation. (I’d still kinda like to try the other idea; I will some day.)
I decided to use 6 rainbow colours: purple, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. I decided to use lots of different fabrics just to make my life more difficult. I didn’t know if I’d put the colour blocks around randomly or what, but in the end they wound up in a diagonal rainbow.
You can see all the photos as it was developed here if you are interested. Here are a few progress photos.
The first 4 blocks:
Playing with layouts as I went:
Trying to decided if I should do a border or another row (I did another row).
The top FINISHED:
Quilting on Big Bertha, my dear friend Cathy’s gigantic quilting machine:
Finished!
The backing. I loath orange, and my friend always gives me shit for it. So I always had to do the backing and binding in orange.
It is quilted with ‘citrus’, which is yellow, green, and orange thread, and orange on the verso.
WOW! this quilt is so beautiful. I love this pattern in the rainbow colors. It looks amazing, and your friend is sure to love it!
🙂 Kelly @ My Quilt Infatuation