This is my favoritest quilt to date. I'm making a snowball queen-size "Marie" quilt using Tula Pink's Parisville line, and each of those blocks made a bunch of leftover HST units that were begging to be made into a throw. I originally sewed up Le Mille for the Tula sew-along at Sew Sweetness last year, and I finally finished the binding this week.
The quilting is mostly straight lines in the solid squares, but I did FMQ a flowery kind of something in the center bit. I used Aurifil thread for the white portions and Sulky thread in the jade portions. The Sulky thread was a lot heavier, but Agatha seemed to take to either thread without problem.
The border is scrappy and uses even more scraps from my bed quilt. I still have a huge stack of scraps from that project, but I'm certainly not complaining since I love Parisville something fierce! Binding is the jade solid, which is Bella Solids in Jade. The white is Kona Snow, I believe.
This quilt was super fun to make--even if I hated trimming all of those crazy HSTs--and I'm so thankful to have it done for snuggling!
And it's not as exciting, but I also finished a scalloped bunting from this tutorial from sew mama sew.
I had plenty of leftovers from this ikea text print I used for backing in Autumn's quilt and Boo's quilt, and they worked perfectly with this bunting. It's hanging in my kitchen, making me a very happy girl.
I'm linking up today with TGIFF at Sew, Love, Live and Finish It Up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts.
You have good reason to be pleased about this quilt. The colors and design are both stunning. I can see why you love parisville! And I think I need some bunting in my kitchen now too! Thanks for sharing at TGIFF!
ReplyDeleteLeftover HSTs and scraps make for an absolutely lovely quilt! Well done. I really need to come up with something pretty for my leftover HSTs, too.
ReplyDeleteIt's so pretty!!! I'm saving up all the little HSTs from my FQS BOM and will do something with it one day!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt! Enjoy it!
ReplyDeleteLove this quilt, it's like ripples spreading out. The back is almost as good as the front too. Also, thank you!, I made my first quilt by buying bags of 5" squares from random lines. I knew nothing about the fabric world. It turns out all of my favourites from those bags came from Parisville!! I never knew :) and it explains why I always fawn over Tula Pink's lines. x
ReplyDeleteCongratulation on your two finishes! Your quilt turned out really well.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteBeautiful quilt! I love how it turned out :) The bunting is awesome, too!
ReplyDeleteThis is beautiful. I love the aqua and white stripes, they complement the quilt well.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I think I could just sit and stare at this one for hours! :)
DeleteGreat colors and cool effect with the white/blue green strips. I have bookmarked the bunting since they posted it on Sew Mama Sew, but haven't sat down and worked on it - thanks for the inspiration to get it finished with some of my scraps. Great Finish!
ReplyDelete(visiting from both Finish it up Friday and TGIFF)
Yay! for the finish. It looks wonderful. The quilting you did really complements the pattern.
ReplyDeleteGreat design and colors. I love the off-center approach. I also adore that it is using up so many leftovers.
ReplyDeleteThank you! I think I only had to purchase a bit of yardage for the backing and the binding, which was really exciting for me. :)
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