This colourful lap quilt or throw is made from 1090 individual pieces
of fabric. I aimed to achieve a 'scrappy' vintage look with the
eclectic mix of fabrics used.
Included are precious snippets of 1970s Summer dresses, vegetable-dyed
fabrics, fabrics dyed by me, repurposed clothing, right up to modern day
batiks and Kaffe Fasset shot cottons and colourful flower fabrics.
The colour scheme goes from light to dark in the columns and from red to
orange/yellow, green, brown, blue, purples/lilacs to pinks across the
rows.
The quilt is made in a freely adapted rail fence pattern, with stripes
of differing widths, (each stripe may be made from one to three
different fabrics), and these are made into 144 five inch squares, and
finished off with a yellow and mint binding, inspired by an antique
quilt.
The quilting is machine sewn at 2.5 inch intervals using a cream to
beige shaded thread. The wadding is 80% cotton/20% polyester and gives a
good combination of warmth and drape to the piece.
The finished size is approximately:-
5 feet square
(60 inches square)
(152.5 cm square)
The quilt has been pre-laundered to give it the softness and puckering cherished in vintage quilts.
This quilt is currently for sale in my Fire Horse Textiles on Folksy shop, priced at £300.
5 feet square
(60 inches square)
(152.5 cm square)
