I wanted to make a quilt as a belated wedding gift for my brother and his lovely new wife. I asked them for their opinion on colours and they came back to me with the request of 'sunshine by the sea' (and no red and white stripes).
This is the result! I used the half triangle square method again (a new favourite!) and used lots of blues with a smattering of yellows. I used some fabrics from
Lewis and Irene's Marrakech range which are gorgeous! The final size is just short of queen sized. The quilting is very simple, with straight lines following the seams of the quilting. I think you can see the quilting more on the back of the quilt. It's not perfectly straight and I had to do quite a bit of of unpicking but I'm happy with the result. It was hard work pushing all of that fabric through the machine!
For the back of the quilt I made one panel using the same fabrics as the front. The only exception to this is the large panel which is a fat quarter from the Marrakech range, and right at the bottom of the panel is one of the usher's ties from their wedding. The binding is a fabric called treasure map and is a yellowish green colour that I think complements the colours of the quilt and brings out the yellows a little bit more.
Some of the fabrics that I chose had a slight nautical theme, but the majority of fabrics were plain. The main colour was just a plain white, but it looks a little bit cream in some of the photos. I had a bit of a nightmare with the patterned fabrics as I kept on cutting it wrong so that it was upside down. Someone else is likely to benefit from my mistakes soon though!!!
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