Finished quilt: Klaus's color block quilt

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Quilt details

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

  • Klaus's color blocks quilt (ninth color block quilt out of twelve)
  • For Klaus Heino (Leeni's and Karo's son)
  • 106 x 106 cm (length x height).
  • timeline
    • color blocks started in May of 2017
    • quilt tops done by the end of November 2017
    • this quilt was basted 28.2.2019, quilted and machine bound the same day.
    • no label added, but all of the child's birth info was embroidered on the back.
    • embroidered and shipped 17.4.2019.
  • Pattern was my own color block quilt pattern. 
  • About the fabrics used for the quilt top
    • The same as for the rest of the color block quilts, which means that each color block has 36 different fabrics in 5 x 5 cm pieces. 36 x 9 colors (+ 36 black and white that made blocks I ended up not using) means a total of 324 (+36) different fabric pieces.
    • White Perla 100% cotton fabric for the sashings, borders and binding.
    • You can read more about quilt top construction here.
  • Blogged about on Instagram on here and here.

Batting, backing and binding fabric:

  • Batting was one layer of 100 g polyester, from Eurokangas.
  • Backing was pieced out of three pieces of IKEA bed linen, in such a way that it made a new symmetric pattern. The seams are in the blue areas.
  • Binding was made out of 5 cm strips of white (A100) Perla 100% cotton fabric.

Quilting pattern:

  • The motifs I did on this quilt is of two feather/paisley ribbons that frame the center block and the outer border. Somewhat the same thing I did on nr 7 in this series (Natalie's quilt).
  • It took me nearly 3 h to quilt - I had to get up and walk/do something else after ~15 min of sitting because of my back - and the kids helped in their own way. (Little boy drove his small Lightning McQueen car all over the quilt at one point.)
  • The filler between the feathers is called Shadow Waves and was motif nr 1 in Leah Day’s 365-days free motion quilting project.

Top thread:

  • For piecing the top: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 800 (white).
  • For free motion quilting: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 1 (natural white).

Bobbin thread:

  • For piecing the top: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 800 (white)
  • For free motion quilting: Gutermann Mara 120, 100% polyester, 1000m, color 1 (natural white).
  • All in all, it took 5 full bobbins and a little on a 6th to free motion quilt the quilt. I lost at bobbin chicken on this quilt!
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Getting this quilt quilted was a miracle all in it self.

Pretty much because it felt like a miracle to just be able to SIT down on a normal chair/saddle chair and use your sewing machine - because I had slipped a disc in my spine and this quilt got quilted only due to the fact that that injury was getting better.


It just proves to me how lucky I was right then, and how great the nurses and doctors at the ER had been. On the 15th of February, which was a on a Friday, I spent the morning-afternoon lying on a gurney in the ER, wondering if I would ever be able to walk properly again because I couldn’t feel my legs... and then on the 28th I managed to sit and do free motion quilting on this color block quilt.

I was by then off the painkillers.

(But not the muscle relaxants, and yeah of course my back and everything was aching - but I never the less managed to do it!)

No, I don't know if it made the quilting better., because it took me nearly 3 h to get it quilted - I had to get up and walk/do something else after ~15 min of sitting.

And the kids wanted to help.

Here's little boy doing just that, by driving the small red Lightning McQueen car (which was his birthday present that he had gotten on his 3rd birthday on the 20th of February) all over the quilt at one point.


And then, I lost when I was playing bobbin chicken! That small less than 10 x 10 cm area was when it ran out and I had to wind some more bobbin thread...


It was so typical.

But, such things happens. (Or happens only when you take a photo of it...)

Next, here's a few close-ups of the quilting I did. First up, the feather ring around the center.




The backing was pieced out of three leftover pieces of an IKEA bed linen. I did it in such a way that it made a new symmetrical pattern. The seams are in the blue areas.

The only thing that was a bit problematic was how I couldn't get it to be completely centered when basted the back to the quilt sandwich. Yes, I did this one backwards, because I REALLY wanted it to get centered. But, alas, there's the area on the left that has this odd yellow stripe that didn't get mirrored on the right.


I did something interesting instead on that yellow strip instead.


I embroidered the name and birth information of the little boy on it :)


I used a variegated blue-to-light-blue cotton thread, one I found in the bundle of cotton threads I bought second hand (see here, it's in the last photo on the top row).










And that's how Klaus's color block quilt was finished. Hopefully he (and his parents) will get a lot of use out of it <3 p="">
Happy quilting everybody!
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