QuiltCon accepted two of my quilts this year; a privilege given the volume of quilts submitted. One of the accepted quilts is my Rainbow Plus quilt (from this pattern):
The other quilt is a version of my Diamonds in the Deep pattern. You might remember this version I created in navy:
I’d wanted to sew a red quilt version for a while, but was keen to sew something other than just plain solids.
Not just a red and white quilt
When I saw Alison Glass’ gorgeous Handcrafted 2 fabric line, I knew Speckled in Tomato was the red fabric I was looking for.
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The red is beautifully vibrant and the pattern is a dark beige/tan . It’s a nice change from white. It matched perfectly with a Moda tan solid the store had in stock.
I wish I’d stopped to take a photo of the fabric for you. But the truth is I cut into that yardage as soon as I got home. I was very inspired :)
The whole fabric is wax-resist dyed with spots. Both edges of the fabric (parallel to the selvedges) have three border lines. When I cut my strips for the log cabin blocks, they were delightfully speckled, with perpendicular stripes at each end.
It makes for a fun effect over the whole of the the quilt. I made the pattern as per the instructions. I just kept in mind as I sewed to try and use speckled and striped alternately where possible. When I laid my blocks out I also swapped and rotated blocks to achieve an even spread of patterns.
Quilting
I sent this quilt to Kelly for long-arm quilting with a flame pattern, which played in nicely with the quilt’s name. She used a light tan thread which shows well on the red fabric. Beautiful job, thanks, Kelly!
Once quilted, I backed this red quilt with some red Amy Butler yardage I had in stash. I sewed the binding from the remnants of the Speckled in Tomato.
It turned out really well, I love the extra interest the fabric gives to the overall design. It reminds me of a fire with the flotsam, jetsam and debris that swirls up on hot air currents.
Best of all – it looks a bit complicated, but the fabric does all the work for you. I’m pretty happy with that :)
If you’d like to make your own red quilt version of Diamonds in the Deep, you can find the pattern over here.
Have a great weekend!
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Well done Kirsty! Congrats!! Thanks for letting me do my thing as well I’m quite proud that I had a little to do with it. Yah ??
Very nice patterns:)
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Beautiful, I love the pattern in red! The fabric makes for some very cool designs when pieced into the quilt.
Congratulations on being accepted into QuiltCon – TWICE! Yay! :-) Both quilts are stunning and I love the effect the fabric creates in your Diamonds! I really love that pattern, one day I’ll have to make one, too! :-)
I’m glad I read your description of the fabric Kirsty, because I was having all sorts of difficulty working out why it looked different to the original design! Great job!
Whenever my Diamonds is ‘seen’ it generates loads of comments, thanks for creating such a stunning pattern and letting me test it.
It’s beautiful Kirsty! The perfect fabric for your gorgeous pattern. Congratulations on having two quilts hanging at QuiltCon.