Friday 15 April 2016

Blueberry Feathers

You might notice that of late I've been rather obssessed with feathers. I don't quite know what it is - the shape, the look, but it's all just so pretty and appealing and I want to make like a million of them. So I did close to it. I made 28 feathers for one quilt. Because. Feathers.



All of the prints in this quilt are from Blueberry Park by Karen Lewis. There are 75 different colours and prints in the range and they are all absolutely gorgeous and stunning and every other superlative you can think of.  I used 52 of those gorgeous prints in this quilt.


I don't think it'd be any great leap for me to say that this line is one of my most favourite fabric lines ever. I use it in most all of my projects of late - I may be starting to run short...


Nor is it going out on a limb to say this may be one of my most favourite quilts I have made to date. All those pretty paper pieced feathers. All those pretty colours. All those gorgeous prints. What's not to love seriously?






I paired it with a geometric print for the backing - which just seemed to match so perfectly with the jewel tone feathers. Ah this makes my quilty heart sing.


I stuck with my tried and true straight line quilting. I quilted it with white thread with the lines 1/2" apart. It just seemed the perfect way to finish off this quilt.

You can find the paper pieced pattern for the feather on Craftsy or Payhip. There are two versions - a more complex one, and a simplified one. I used the simplifed version and then cut down the number of fabrics I used to just two fabrics per feather. This way I could show off all the pretty so much more easily!



The hardest part of this entire quilt? Taking photos. I had to bribe my children with ice cream to help me. They weren't the best help - in the end I held the quilt, my 5 year old snapped the photos. I think she did fairly well! Though just to prove that it didn't all go so smoothly, and because it's fun, here are some of the outtakes from the Blueberry Feathers photo shoot!


However I got some lovely photos of it, which I'm thrilled about as this lovely quilt now belongs to Karen Lewis herself (talk about pressure making the quilt for the designer of the stunning fabric!).


Ah so much pretty and happiness all in one photo. Quilty bliss.

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22 comments:

  1. Beautiful. I am definitely going looking for this fabric line.

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  2. Gorgeous! Perfect way to showcase this wonderful fabric line.

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  3. So so beautiful! My sister is also in love with the Blueberry Park line, for her sewing. I can see why!

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  4. That is a stunning quilt. It has stimulated some design features for future quilts. Yay!

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  5. I love your quilt, its beautiful!!!

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  6. Gorgeous quilt. Love the feathers and the fabrics!

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  7. Gorgeous quilt. Love the feathers and the fabrics!

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  8. That is a fabulous quilt! Thanks for sharing it with us.

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  9. This is just stunning. x

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  10. Gorgeous, love the feathers !!

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  11. One of my favorites too! This is just gorgeous and who doesn't love feathers?! And rainbows?!

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  12. Your feather quilt is gorgeous! I just love it and the fabric you used. Hugs,

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  13. That is a stunning quilt. I love the feathers, the colours and the beautiful white space.

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  14. I've been trying to choose which Blueberry Park fabrics to use for my king quilt for my bed - and now you did it for me! Thank you! I'm using the Modern Love pattern by Sherri Noel, I'm going to love it! Love this feathers quilt though, might have to make it too!

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    1. Oh wait. I've changed my mind. I'm going to make this feather quilt for my bed! I love it so much! I'm going to print the blocks at 150%, and make it 10 blocks by 5 blocks plus a 12 inch border. Did you write down the blueberry park fabrics you used? I can get it close, but if you have a list already I would surely appreciate it.

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    2. I don't have a list of the exact colours I used. What I did was put my fabrics all together and then went through and paired them up until I was happy with the colour combination. I used a mix of the cool, warm and neutral packs - just picked out my favourites from the whole 75 - not an easy task! Good luck - it'll be gorgeous for a bed quilt!

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  15. Beautiful colour play too! Looks great!

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  16. This is a gorgeous quilt!!!

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  17. What a pretty quilt! Would you be willing to share the name of that HST backing fabric?

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