A new stained glass quilt

I have a quilt. A new quilt. It has a stained glass quilt in the centre.

Back in last year, I was asked to teach stained glass applique workshop. And I needed to make a new pattern. Which means I have left with a new bit of quilt sample.

The workshop with Wicklow Patchwork Group went well despite the fact a storm was threatening us to cancel it. See everyone’s results. Each is so different and beautiful.

Workshop results!

It is a cushion cover size of about 19″. This time, I wanted to make a larger quilt.

So I started round robin style quilt enlargement because it increases the size quite quickly.

The first round was with rather bright colours. Just simple squares and rectangles.

Then I wanted to calm it down a bit with paler colours. They are bento box blocks but I changed the placement to create those blue zig zag lines because it draws attention to the centre.

Then, I thought the second round was way too pale. And added a bit more colour with simple stripy triangles on the border. You can see the zigzag shapes all around the border again. Now it was around 60″ and I was happy to proceed to quilting.

The focal point, the stained glass part and the first round were quilted in each part to add texture. All the threads are more or less in matching colours to each fabric. You can click the photos to enlarge.

I played more on the second round by bringing in different colours of threads to make up the various parts of the circle motif. There are pink, purple, blue, green and yellow as well as white.

The border was quilted with simple fan like curves. In order to go with the zig zag pattern, the quilting motifs were swinging in different directions.

Can you see the colour of the threads on the back of this quilt?

The backing is a patchwork of various fabrics for a change.

The edge of this quilt is all on bias cut and it was stretched a bit. You can see a little bit of waviness around the binding. I actually didn’t notice until I bound it. Steaming helped to fix the problem but not perfect. Anyway, I am letting it go.
The binding is yellow/orange to add a bit more colour to the edge. Now it has shrunk to about 55″.