My niece Emily got married in March of this year and a few months before my mum suggested that we made a quilt together. My mum sews, a LOT but she is a dressmaker and quilts are a little out of her comfort zone, so she left the decisions and planning to me.
I chose some really beautiful fabric - Honeysweet by Moda.
Its gorgeous and I loved the colours and the patterns in it. We bought pre-cuts to save a bit of time (jelly rolls and a charm pack) but there was still a lot of cutting out to do.
For the pattern I decided that a Blackford Beauty, 16" block would be a good choice. Its a very pretty block.
However, it turns out that in quilt mathematics pretty fabrics + pretty blocks does NOT = pretty quilt. It is far too busy, it would probably have been much improved by some more solid fabrics, a nice cream fabric in every block would have calmed down all that "noise".
OK, here is the finished quilt, you probably shouldn't look at it for more than 5 seconds for fear of burning your corneas:
As you can see, the fabric is lovely, just not when it is all put closely together.
The back was very nice, though...
My mum paid for it to be long-arm quilted and I added a little label that I made on my sewing machine. The quilter did a very nice job, I will have to ask my mum who it was so that I can tell you, I know she lives in Sussex somewhere.
We put a lot of work into this quilt, there are a gazillion pieces but when the wedding day came and it was time to hand it over I was very tempted to drop it into a muddy puddle or conveniently "forget" it.
They were very grateful and a lot of people said it was beautiful but I know that I should have done better. Hopefully the keep it in a cupboard somewhere, maybe wrapped around their hot water cylinder for insulation. I would hate to think that they have it on their bed, imagine sleeping under that, it would give you nightmares.
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