Red Boxes Quilt
magikquilter February 4th, 2008
Excuse the boots in the photo…have to crop it some how!
This quilt was made several years ago after I had made one in a darker colourway. Alas I do not have a picture of that one as it was in pre blogging days when I was quite slack about documenting the construction process. It was a gift for a wonderful young woman and hopefully brought much needed comfort at a difficult time in her life. That quilt had the dominant fabric in black with coral roses and blue with pink roses through to creams with more pink roses. I also used a lot of recycled fabrics taken from ladies blouses in it.
The red version came about at a time when there were masses of shabby chic and soft pink rose quilts around. I wanted to still have some depth to the colour scheme and after looking at all the shabby chic quilts around that year at our big quilt show in Sydney I wondered what red would look like with all the soft creamy rose fabrics I had been collecting. So the hunt was on for a red rose fabric. No luck, just lots of dark colours which I already knew worked! Then luckily on one of my fortnightly raids on Spotlight I found a gorgeous red fabric which was perfect, even though it didn’t have roses it had large flowers which were really scattered over it which was even better as all the other fabrics with the flowers closely packed looked too busy somehow.
The quilt was really simple, the top came together quickly as each finished block measures 30cm. I really recommend this quilt for using up lots of fat quarters and for running something up quickly. After making several blocks I decided to add various soft green rose fabrics from my stash, the green seemed to lift the quilt somehow. I was lucky enough to find some duck egg blue fabric scattered with roses for the backing and after adding low loft polyester wadding I quilted each block about 1cm inside each box using gold perle thread. After finishing off the edges by hand I also stitched around the outer edge with perle thread.
This quilt has been very popular on Flickr which is why I thought I would rephotograph it and write it up on my blog. It has a certain modern feel to it and looks great draped over a chair. It makes a great scrap quilt and I also noticed in Kaffe Fassett’s last book he has done a version in his shot cottons in two colourways. You can see a version of his quilt here and another also by the very talented Fruitsalad :
Speaking of Kaffe I have almost finished the top of the four patch upholstery quilt which I interpreted from one of his books, he used quilting fabrics but as I love the sheen of brocades and jacquards I decided to try to make dent in my upholstery stash. Tried and failed, I’ll have to do another five quilts at least to make any impression. Ah the challenge!
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