Finished quilt: Emil S's color block quilt

Quilt details

Name, Recipient, Size, Start/Finished date, Pattern and Fabrics used

• Emil’s color blocks quilt (fourth color block quilt out of twelve)
• For Emil Signell
• 106 x 106 cm (length x height).
• color blocks started in May of 2017, quilt top done by the end of November 2017, quilt basted 2.7.2018, quilted and bound on October 8th and the label added 31.10.2018. Shipped 1.11.2018.
• My own color blocks quilt pattern.
• About the fabrics used:
• The same as for the rest of the color block quilts, which means that each color block has 36 different fabrics in 5x5 cm pieces. 36 x 9 colors (+ 36 B&W that made blocks I ended up not using) means a total of 324 different fabric pieces.
• White Perla 100% cotton fabric for the sashings, borders and binding.
• You can read more about construction here.

Batting, backing and binding fabric:

• Single layer of thin (680 g) polyester batting from Kruunun Kangas.
• Backing was made out of a single piece of the brown fabric with small flowers you can see in the first pile, second from the top (standing yellow fabric), in this photo.
• Binding was made out of 5 cm wide white Perla fabric strips.

Quilting pattern:

• Really basic walking foot quilting of squares inside squares.

Top thread:

• For piecing the top: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 800 (white).
• For piecing the back: Coats, 100% polyester, 200m, color 9068 (dark blue).
• For free motion quilting
• Coats, 100% polyester, 200m, color 9068 (dark blue) for the outer border pattern.No quilting done on the black skinny inner border.
• Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 800 (white) for the center medallion.

Bobbin thread:

• For piecing the top: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 800 (white)
• For piecing the back: Coats, 100% polyester, 200m, color 9068 (dark blue).
• For free motion quilting: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 800 (white).
• All in all, it took about 2 full bobbins to free motion quilt the quilt.

Blogged about on:

• the blog March 11 2018, 
• Instagram November 6th

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These color block quilts are my own designs, but I learned and used Elizabeth Hartman's tutorial on how to easily make color blocks with small squares and interfacing. The rest is just white sashings and a white border.

And Emil, if your quilt is still white and pristine when you start going to school, then clearly your parents didn't let you use it correctly ;)

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