This is just a quick post with some photos of the finished Preppy Knee Socks Quilt.
You can read more about how I made the top here.
Here's the back of the quilt. The background is the same Kona Indigo that was used as an accent on the quilt top.
The free-motion quilting shows up really well on the darker parts of the back.
Thank you so much to my quilt holders, Jen and Jaime!
This is part of a series of posts about the quilts from Modern Patchwork. I'm highlighting a different quilt each month, and will be remaking each of the book quilts in some way. This month, I made a neon version of the Honey Quilt. You can see my earlier post about it here.
I had all kinds of plans for photographing this finished quilt, some of which may have involved a black light, but I ended up finishing it just in time to meet my shipping deadline, so I had to settle for a quick photo shoot complete with a lot of dead leaves. (Why all the dead leaves at this time of year?!)
The front of this quilt is the same as the quilt on Pages 78 - 85 of Modern Patchwork. I quilted it with Mettler poly 6010, which is a very bright neon yellow.
The back is different from the quilt in the book. I wanted to do something vaguely 80's-style to go with the neon, so I cut a bunch of 9" tall 60° triangles and arranged them in a giant heart shape on my design wall. Then, I just filled in the background, adding a few more triangles in the negative space.
The neutral solids in this quilt are both Michael Miller Cotton Couture - Bright White on the front and Charcoal on the back.
I will try to get some better photos when this quilt comes back to me!
I'm so happy with the way this top turned out!
It's made using Robert Kaufman's new Chambray Union. There are eight different fabrics, each of which have a slightly different texture. The fabrics have a really nice feel and drape, making them great for apparel but, of course, I put them into a quilt. The white is Essex cotton/linen.
The 72" x 72" top is made with nine 24" x 24" Knee Socks blocks. Knee Socks is a block pattern I wrote for the Week of Using What You Have during 100 Days of Modern Quilting on the MQG blog.
The block design uses contrasting fabrics to create the graphic stripe design. In both of the pattern examples, I used solid white for all of the light fabric/background, but you could easily substitute a variety of low-volume fabrics. In fact, it would probably make a fantastic scrappy value quilt. If you wanted to go that route, you could just ignore the instructions for cutting the solid background fabric and double the amount of the constrasting stripe fabric, making one set of dark stripes and one set of light.
For the blocks in my Preppy Knee Socks quilt, I substituted a pop of Kona Lipstick, Citrus, Cyan, or Indigo for one of the white stripes in each of the block units. The brighter solids contrast with both the white and the more neutral chambrays that comprise the rest of the stripes.
I know someone who will be disappointed if I don't also mention that the original block design was inspired by the rainbow stripe-tastic video for The Commodores Lady (You Bring Me Up).