I love this quilt. It’s bright. It’s colourful. It’s cheerful. Even the backing fabric, from the Happi range by Dena Designs, echoes the theme.
The pattern is a traditional one called stacked coins but traditional doesn’t have to mean old fashioned. It looks very modern when made up in these bright, bold fabrics.
I used this Honey Honey jelly roll, another Moda pre-cut, to make the quilt. Jelly rolls contain 40 or 42 fabric strips, each two and a half inches wide and cut across the width of the fabric. As with layer cakes, they are a good way to play with a full fabric collection as there is a least one strip of each design in the roll.
After cutting, the jelly roll strips were sewn into long columns and then set within a jewel purple sashing which shows the colours off beautifully. To complement the bright, cheerfulness of the quilt, it was long-arm quilted in a giant daisy pattern using a variegated pink and mauve thread.
The quilt binding, using the green checked fabric from the Honey Honey collection, is a little deeper than I generally use but I think it suits the larger size of this quilt. At 184cm by 169cm, it makes a perfect picnic blanket or would make a fabulous gift for a young woman off to university. And of course, it would look great on a bed or sofa too.
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