Monday, May 16, 2011

Central Park Quilt Finished

Central Park Quilt Finished

I finished my central park baby quilt over the weekend (previously blogged here and here) and am excited to be entering it in the Blogger's Quilt Festival!  I had fun playing with the different colors in this quilt and with the different block and sashing sizes... making the blocks up semi-improvisationally definitely helped to me to see what combinations of fabrics and colors I was most drawn to as I worked, and what worked best in the end.

Central Park Quilt - Detail

Actually doing the quilting is not my favorite part of the process, and I tend to like a less-heavily quilted look (although not always), so I kept the quilting on this pretty simple and light.  I just echo quilted the main blocks, and then quilted one line inside each of the solid squares within the blocks - sometimes in the inner edge, sometimes in the middle and sometimes on the outer edge. 

Central Park Quilt - Folded

I used the same dusty lavender that I had used in the blocks as binding and backed it with the fun zoo print from this line.  I was a bit concerned that since I was using a mix of pre-washed fabrics and unwashed charm squares that the different shrinkage between the different fabrics, so I washed and dried the quilt after taking these photos and luckily it really didn't seem to be a problem.  If anything, the charm squares a bit less crinkly than the other fabrics, but it looks fine I think. 

Quilt Post-Washing

I am looking forward to checking out the other quilts that have been entered in the Blogger's Quilt Festival!

Amy's Creative Side

13 comments:

  1. this makes me want to get out my stash of Central Park, but I'm working on too many other things now.

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  2. Looks great! Good to know that the washed and unwashed fabrics did okay together. I worry about that sometimes too!

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  3. Your quilt is beautiful. I looked at the blogger's Quilt Festival and my oh my..... there are alot of quilts.

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  4. Wow! I love the zoo print! It's so cute. Great job!

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  5. Always loved this collection of fabric. Your quilt is really pretty! Love it! I like how you quilted it too.

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  6. Wow! Looks amazing! Makes me miss quilting so much!

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  7. I love how you combined the fabrics. It is a stunning baby quilt.

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  8. So beautiful! Did you use another line with the Central Park, or just odds & ends from your stash? I particularly like the dots you used. Very nice! (I made a quilt from CP too - 'flickrdeb50'on flickr, which is where I saw your quilt.)

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  9. Your quilt is beautiful, Kate! I love the colors and especially the quilting ... It's not my favorite part of quilting either (lol)!

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  10. It is beautiful, I love the purple you used to bind it! The backing is great too, I love that print from Central Park!

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  11. This is really lovely! Central park looks incredible with that cute animal print!

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  12. This is a great fabric and I love the way you have used it in your quilt. Love the back, too!

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