Wednesday, April 16, 2014

WIP Wednesday: the Domestic Bliss quilt

You know those quilts you've been working on forever, plodding away, making slow progress? This was one of those quilts. I started it in May last year for our bed. I have been working on it while I was at quilt group, which amounts to a few hours a month. 

Slow going. 

At quilt group last Sunday I finally started to see it coming together, I had half the stars pieced and it was all starting to make sense.Since I am on school holidays for two weeks, when I got home I decided not to pack it away. I was determined to get it done.



Three days of solid piecing later, I'm still going. There was so.much.pinning. So.much.pressing. So.much.chain piecing. But we have rows, I'm happy with that. I can see the finish line.


I am loving the secondary pattern of the yellow and white snowballs. A nice place to rest the eye as this baby is busy!!


I started with some of Liz Scott's Domestic Bliss fabrics for Moda. I absolutely love the saturated hues of this line. I wish I'd been able to get some more of the yellows, didn't know those ones existed!

Because I don't like to use just one line in my quilts, I pulled additional fabrics that played nicely with the colours in the Domestic Bliss.

The pattern was a freebie from Moda Bakeshop called Nough Said by Cindy Sharp. I sized it up to a queen size quilt, just to make it a little more challenging. And worked from a black and white print out with pencil scrawl on it, because I love self-torture!


I do have one little problem though. I bought a Denyse Schmidt print at Spotlight which seemed like it would be the perfect border, but now I'm really not so sure. I like the solid yellow sashing, and the striped binding, but the border print seems too busy and too orange. I have enough of it for the backing and I'm fine with using it for that... just not sure as a border. I may need to go shopping to see if I can find something a little more subdued.


Linking up with Sew Cute Tuesday and WIP Wednesday.




7 comments:

  1. I can see why you didn't want to pack it away! So bright and happy! Love all the colors :) "I love self torture" I laughed, I guess we do these things to ourselves because we just know we are going to have a wonderful quilt like yours when we stop banging our heads ;) haha

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  2. gorgeous quilt. It is great when we see progress being made

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  3. Beautiful quilt! Love the colors!! Must go check out that pattern... Thanks for sharing!

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  4. Lovely! Love the pattern and the fabrics you put together.:)

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  5. Gorgeous quilt - love your fabrics. I like how you enhance a fabric line with other fabrics from your stash. I definitely agree with your assessment of the print for the border, but it will make a great backing.

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  6. This is absolutely gorgeous! It will definitely be worth all of the pinning in the end! I had a quilt like that recently and now that it is finished I am SO happy with it!

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  7. Great quilt! I know what you mean about those quilts that seem to go on forever.

    You are on target with the border fabric. It will be a great back, but I agree that it needs something quieter for the border. Can't wait to see what you choose.

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