Sunday, February 22, 2015

Hint - Ta Da!

Hint

Let me introduce you to my latest quilt, Hint. She is about 40" square. She was made using a half metre package of Scandinavia shot cottons from Oakshott Fabrics. She was quilted with straightish lines with random spacings from 1/8" to about 1".

HInt

I designed Hint for Oakshotts to show off these stunning fabrics. One of the two threads used to weave the fabrics is a beautiful snowy white and the other is colour (except for the one with two of white threads) and this creates light colours with a great deal of depth. The coloured thread is not really a pastel, so the light fabrics shine with a lot more colour than you would expect.

Hint

Another thing about the Scandinavia line is that they have a nice weight. They seem to me to be lighter weight than a regular quilting cotton but not so light that they are difficult to use for quilting. They wash up beautifully too - all these photos are after the quilt wash washed and dried.

Hint

This design is currently available as a kit from Oakshotts here but watch for more about it later this month on the Shotthrough Blog. My goal in making the pattern was to use just a single 1/2 metre pack of the fabrics - there is enough fabric to make the front, back and scrappy binding.

Hint

The focus on using the 1/2 metre pack did require me to use different coloured borders, which is not my go to approach. But, now I have to say that I love them on this quilt, and it would be fun to change out the outside border to one of the colours as well or add a skinny border between the two in your favourite of the colours.

Hint

The back is classic and really shows off the beauty of the fabrics. And I used a scrappy binding to bring out all the hints of colour from the centre of the motif, which hints at circles, and hence the name.

Hint

The pattern also contains the math to make a large 84" square bed size quilt too. I have set out the actual fabric requirements, but also 2 one metre packs would give you enough of all the fabrics for top, back and binding and a bit left over of some for further play.

Pinwheels Booth at QuiltCon 2015

I am at QuiltCon, and thus the silence here on the blog - I've put a little on instagram if you cannot wait. You can see that Hint is here too, on display at the beautiful Pinwheels booth. I will have more for you tomorrow and over the week, it has been a great and overwhelming experience.

Best,

Leanne

28 comments:

magistra said...

Hint is a beautiful quilt. Really, I just find it to be stunning.

Archie The Wonder Dog said...

Beautiful. I could look at her all day...

Amy at love made my home said...

It is gorgeous!! xx

Rike Busch said...

Oakshott makes so nice fabrics. I love the coloes and the feeling of them. A very nice quilt!
Greetings, Rike

Scrappy quilter said...

Beautiful work!

Jayne said...

As always, just gorgeous! I have yet to use any Oakshott fabrics! I need to get with it! Love the softness to this piece!

Judith, Belfast said...

Hint is lovely! Glad you are having a great time! Jxo

Judy@Quilt Paradigm said...

Hint is absolutely gorgeous! Gotta love Oakshotts (that is my quilt hanging next to Hint in the Pinwheels booth!!). And congratulations on Breathe! SO deserving!!

elle said...

Hint is fabulous. Luv the soft shimmer!

Lisa J. said...

I like the subtle hints of colour in this quilt. I'm glad you are having a great time.

Catherine said...

This is so beautiful - like mother of pearl. Congratulations on your success at Quiltcon!

Susan said...

Beauty in its simplicity!

pennydog said...

Another pretty, looking forward to your Quiltcon report.

Michele said...

So gorgeous!

cinzia said...

Beautiful. As is your winning quilt at Quiltcon. Congratulations.

Cindy said...

oh my goodness, leanne! the texture! gorgeous gorgeous gorgeous. it's funny - I am SO drawn to the color in these fabrics when it's very not "me". you've clearly created something very special :)

Stephie said...

What a beautiful quilt, I think the simple design really lets the textures and colours of the fabric sing. Hope you had a great time at QuiltCon (not jealous at all!!!)

Sandra W said...

Congratulations on your win at QuiltCon. It is a beautiful quilt.

Unknown said...

Beautiful quilt! The link to the kit led to an error page, at least for me.

Jessica said...

Congrats on a beautiful quilt! I didn't get to see it at the booth :( Oh well. I saw one of your other quilts hanging in the show. It was great to meet you!

Vera said...

Looks great and so does the booth!

Laura Chaney said...

Beautiful quilt! It makes me want to rub my hands over it to feel the quilting!

Laura Chaney said...

Beautiful quilt! It makes me want to rub my hands over it to feel the quilting!

Debbie said...

Lovely to see Hint in person and to share booth space! ;-)

Katy Cameron said...

Even though you said the size in the post, it wasn't until I saw it in the booth that I realised how little it was! The colours somehow say Scandinavian winter to me (ie colour buried in snow!), but I suppose that was the general idea lol

Camilla said...

Really beautiful! So calm and peaceful

Colleen said...

Gorgeous. I tried the link fir the kit but it's broken. Is there a pattern to purchase?

Scheibsdeb said...

Where can you buy your patterns. I would especially like this one. Thank you.