House Unity Quilt for Azkatraz
Finally all done! Piecing, quilting, binding, everything. Since it's going into the Azkatraz Art Gallery and also into the auction, I thought I'd show a better picture and share a little bit about how it was made.
The Hogwarts House Crest Fabric came from a couple of different places. I received some of the fabric from here_be_dragons a few years back - they were originally curtains in her guest room. Since the whole idea of quilting came from the idea of using every single scrap of fabric available, I didn't think it a bad thing to recycle/reuse. Don't worry, they've been washed! ;) The rest of the Crest fabric I purchased off of eBay in small batches. Everything else came from my own personal stash of fabric. I bought about 1 yard of various blues to use, since I was lacking the correct shades, but the rest of the colors I had various sized pieces.
The blocks are a variation of the traditional Log Cabin pattern, except with a half-square triangle of the Crest fabric. The blocks were paper-pieced, and the sashing cut from a solid blue fabric that also serves as the binding. The quilt's backing is the Crest fabric, and I used 100% cotton Warm and Natural batting. It's quilted in a "stitch-in-the-ditch" pattern, simple squares. The quilt is sofa-sized, 64 inches by 48 inches.
The whole shebang:
Close-up of a block, plus sashing on one side:
I'm making a quilt stand out of PVC pipe using these directions, something that's new to me. I've already smashed my thumb while buying the supplies, so hopefully I'll have better luck when I bring out the hacksaw tomorrow to cut the pieces to length, heh.
The Hogwarts House Crest Fabric came from a couple of different places. I received some of the fabric from here_be_dragons a few years back - they were originally curtains in her guest room. Since the whole idea of quilting came from the idea of using every single scrap of fabric available, I didn't think it a bad thing to recycle/reuse. Don't worry, they've been washed! ;) The rest of the Crest fabric I purchased off of eBay in small batches. Everything else came from my own personal stash of fabric. I bought about 1 yard of various blues to use, since I was lacking the correct shades, but the rest of the colors I had various sized pieces.
The blocks are a variation of the traditional Log Cabin pattern, except with a half-square triangle of the Crest fabric. The blocks were paper-pieced, and the sashing cut from a solid blue fabric that also serves as the binding. The quilt's backing is the Crest fabric, and I used 100% cotton Warm and Natural batting. It's quilted in a "stitch-in-the-ditch" pattern, simple squares. The quilt is sofa-sized, 64 inches by 48 inches.
The whole shebang:
Close-up of a block, plus sashing on one side:
I'm making a quilt stand out of PVC pipe using these directions, something that's new to me. I've already smashed my thumb while buying the supplies, so hopefully I'll have better luck when I bring out the hacksaw tomorrow to cut the pieces to length, heh.