Friday 11 December 2015

A rainbow quilt finish

It's a mixture of phone and camera pictures but hopefully you get the gist.

First off the back.



All the backing and binding fabrics are from my stash - the binding is a Jinny Beyer pushing 20 years.

And I've had to alternate the pics from outside: (theoretically better light but tipping down with rain) to inside: dry.


The background to the Geese is just a selection of light turquoise/blu fabrics with either text or some tonal additions. I didn't want a solid as the background as I felt that was going to make it too stark.






A shot of rainbow colour in the depths of a wet and windy winter.

23 comments:

  1. Beautiful! I love the colors and all the fabrics!

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  2. Wow a real happy and cheerful quilt. Bet it sleeps good!

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  3. I can't believe how quickly you got this finished! Good though, I guess that means it might make it here before Christmas.

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  4. That's really beautiful. Love the low volume background for your cheery flying geese.

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  5. A beautiful quilt! Love the backing too. I agree with your choice of backgrounds for the Geese. Perfect.

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  6. I love rainbow your way! You should make it more often

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  7. Lovely! And you can't have rainbows without rain...

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  8. So pretty. I immediately thought... it's a traffic jam of geese! :)

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  9. It's so very gorgeous. My favourite combo of flying geese, scraps, and a scrappy background too. Bravo!

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  10. first off, the back - haha! way to build the suspense. =) all those colorful geese are so happy and cheerful! what a bright and lovely finish.

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  11. first off, the back - haha! way to build the suspense. =) all those colorful geese are so happy and cheerful! what a bright and lovely finish.

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  12. I love Megan's Traffic Jam image. I was reminded of visiting a Sandhill Crane observation area in Indiana (yes I know, not geese) where they gather by the hundreds to socialize before roosting.

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  13. Beautifully warm & colourful!

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  14. Simply stunning! Loving the back and the background for all those yummy geese!!! Perfectly lovely. Way to go ����❤️����

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  15. It's a beautiful quilt. What method did you use to make the flying geese? They all look very neat :-)

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  16. You do such a wonderful job with mixing color. I love the way you used a blend of fabrics for the background. It's a winner!

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  17. Perfect antidote to a rainy day! And the background bits do really make it sing.

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  18. Good call on using pale blues in the background. It allows the other colours to shine without making it stark, exactly as you had planned.

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  19. This is a beautiful quilt, you have such a great eye for colour placement.

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  20. You've done it again! (Made a quilt that I have to keep coming back to see, that is!)

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