Cherry House Quilts also have a great colour chart "with the exact Kona Solids colors you will need to create The Tempest in seven different options". It helped inspire me to see how I could feature the colours in my nephew's bedroom in their new house, as secretly posted to me on this sheet from his Mum.
Using my friend's invaluable Kona Solids Colour Card (I want!) which has one inch swatches of each of the 220 fabrics in the range, I was able to match up greys and browns for the main colour. For the accents I chose black, two different reds, sky blue, white and ivory.
Based on range and price, I purchased the Kona Solids fabrics from Hancocks of Paducah and Fat Quarter Shop.
The pattern is very simple, featuring strip piecing. All cut and ready to piece:
Blocks made and laid out, ready to sew into rows:
This is the largest quilt I have made so I got it quilted with a modern geometric pattern by Barb Cowan of The Quilt Connection here in Brisbane. It's the second time I've had a quilt quilted by Barb (the first was this one for my friend's daughter). It's a joy to work with her.
Finished!
It turns out this is the seventeenth quilt I have made since I started quiltmaking in May 2009. You can see a gallery of all of them here on my Flickr page. Sweet then, that it's for my nephew's seventeenth birthday!
Stitched into it is lots of good luck for his final year of school and hopes for his future as he blossoms into a wonderful young man.
Very masculine - job well done (as always)
ReplyDeleteyou amaze me! another gorgeous creation.
ReplyDeleteIt's gorgeous! I can't believe you have sewn 17 already!
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