The recent cold blast finally spurred me to finish quilting my sushi and dim sum quilt.

It's the largest quilt I've made to date - twin-sized at 76 inches wide and 84 inches long, but large enough to cover my full-size bed. Made up of leftover fabric from pajama pants I made five years ago. Interspersed with plain cream-colored blocks and sashes so the focus would be on the green and blue blocks. I found a nice cream-colored queen-size sheet with pale blues and greens that seemed to coordinate with the sushi and dim sum blocks. I cut strips from that sheet to create the border and keystone blocks. I like how the slight bit of color in the keystone blocks served to break up the all-cream-colored parts, but weren't bold enough to overpower the sushi and dim sum prints.

I quilted very large stitches on both sides of the seams.

See? The border fabric sort of matches? And it only cost me $3 for the sheet, which I used to cover the whole back. The sushi and dim sum fabrics were leftovers. I had two kinds of cream colored fabric, a plain one and a cream-on-cream embroidered one. Both were free from my mom's stash. And I used a 40% off coupon for the batting. So all-in-all, this quilt cost me less than $10 total in materials. Not a bad way to use up leftover fabric.
This is the first time I put on a binding, and I like how "finished" it looks.

Here's what the back side looks like.

It's pretty lightweight so more of a summer quilt, so lil' sis has been sleeping underneath this quilt and a flannel one.
C'mon, why don't you
start quilting too. :)
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1 year ago today,
lil' sis's Chinese Sunbonnet Sue quilt and I started this sushi and dim sum quilt. Go see lil' sis's quilt and pay her lots of compliments! :)
Hi Chopsticks,
ReplyDeleteI am so glad to see you are still quilting! It turned out great. I am very impressed that you did the whole thing for $10.
Yes, I see how the border works very nicely. It does not overpower at all.
It looks like you handquilted it, too. Very nice work.
I hope you enjoy sleeping under it for a very long time!
I am working on a binding today for the king-sized one I pieced last winter/spring. I hope to have it on my bed by tomorrow night. I am going to post a pic later today of how long the binding piece is. It's very long - about 37 feet--I started sewing it yesterday.
I hope you have a very happy new year, Miss Chopsticks!
Zoey,
ReplyDeleteMy one quilt is only half the size of one of yours and you make multiple ones a year! But thanks for the compliment. :)
WOW. I'm so friggin' impressed!!!
ReplyDeleteIt's gorgeous.
Jaden,
ReplyDeleteThanks! :)