A Green Quilt for the 2017 Pantone Quilt Challenge (opening soon – see Bryan House Quilts and No Hats in the House for all the details).
The 2017 Pantone Colour of the Year is Greenery – an insufferably cheerful shade of green. Aw, okay, I don’t mind it (much better than Marsala – 2015’s colour), but I’m still sulking it wasn’t a shade of teal.
Anyway, I do love a challenge because I love constraints. I feel like they make me try all sorts of new things I might not necessarily try. Like sewing an insufferably and cheerfully green quilt :)
The pattern for this quilt was sketched out last year as a way to use up the leftover fabric from my Colour Explosion quilt. Here is my original drawing:
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I thought it would be interesting to see how it looked when reduced down to two main colours: green and grey.
The blocks are all flying geese and HSTs, many with a little stitch-and-flip corner of another colour.
There were a lot of points and nesting seams to consider, but it all came together quite well in the end.
Quilting was a straight line affair, using the central diamonds as base lines which I then extended out to the edges of the quilt. I filled in extra lines here and there, just to make sure I didn’t have any large areas unquilted. But overall, the quilting was a lot less dense then what I usually do.
The backing was a fun children’s fabric that I bought at IKEA in France, all those years ago.
I made a scrappy binding, using the solids from in the quilt (Kona Grass Green and Lime).
I zigzag-stitched the binding down this time. It was super quick and I think it looks fab given the quilt design is full of angles as well.
The finished quilt is 36.5″ x 49.5″ – a great baby quilt size.
Have you been tempted to sew with Greenery this year? If so, why not enter your quilt in the 2017 Quilt Challenge?
Happy sewing,
Kirsty
I would love the pattern!
What size are the blocks you used and the size of the flying geese. And the corner stones. Still sad theres no pattern!
I would love pattern for this!
This is so beautiful when seen as a larger picture. While the color green is not my favorite, I could enjoy this in some of my favorites —- like red or aqua with grey. I like grey a lot. The pattern itself is amazing and I am particularly fond of flying geese things. I also sent you an e mail before I checked out the blog
This is a really pretty quilt, and I’m sure it will do well for you in the challenge! Any thoughts as to releasing your pattern that you made this with?
Hi Vivian, I hadn’t planned on releasing a pattern, but if a few more people do happen to show interest I would reconsider and squish it into my schedule somewhere :)
I would love the pattern!
I love it and I love the Green
Thank you, Carolyn!
Love the quilt. Adding all the other tones of green and some gray to calm it down was just the ticket. I might have to add this one to my to do list. The pattern is great.
The quilt you made is beautiful. I love the color green. It is my favorite color. I am new to quilting. My first quilt has different greens in it. The fabric I have purchased for 2 more quilts has green with one of them having green and blue as the main colors.
Depending on the quilt I would use zigzag. Mostly I like the traditional finish for the binding.
I love the quilt..everything about it..the green, the pattern, the binding… I am definitely a green girl.. Not so mch for teal
I love the idea of using the zigzag stitch for the binding! Cute quilt.
Well I’m with you Kirsty – much prefer TEAL. Not a lover of green and have very little in my stash! I made a quilt for my favourite aunt who loved green and it really pushed me to the limit of my ‘comfort’ zone. Couldnt bear to use just green so I added purple! Lol.
Ha, you’re a rebel! I will agree this quilt pushed me to find a way to like grass green, so I’m grateful for that. But usually the only time I use such a bright green is to bridge the gap between yellow and blue in a rainbow colour scheme. :)