Speaking of Kaffe, we’ve somehow had a lot of Kaffe quilts finished lately. The tops have actually been done for a while, but we finally had them quilted. I came to accept that I wouldn’t have time to quilt them myself, let alone by hand, which had been the plan. So they went of to .
For this one, I wanted to show off that large print, Japanese Chrysanthemum, and the Sweet Pea pattern was perfect. I chose the yellow/orange colorway because I rarely use those colors but lately they are calling out to me. And I didn’t want to end up all matchy with the sashing, so I took the greyish blue peeking out from behind the mums as the jumping off point for choosing the polka dotted sashing in slate blue. I think my mom thought I was crazy, but I like how it turned out. I was tempted to do bright orange cornerstones, but went with a faint grey, Bella solid in Feather (also a new favorite for backgrounds, in addition to Kona Snow). Now that was probably more detail than you ever needed to know about this simple quilt.
The strippy quilt was made in Kathy’s first Jelly Roll Quilt Class. It’s actually 2 Design Rolls, one Kaffe and one Brandon Mabley. They each had fewer strips than a Moda Jelly Roll–which gives you a throw sized quilt–so combined they give you more of twin size. And with this many strips, you end up with a vertical orientation. This may make no sense if you haven’t made this Jelly Roll quilt before, but it’s kind of a quilt of chance. You just can’t really plan how it will look other than by choosing your strips. I’m anxious to make another one, with a Hullaballoo Jelly Roll this time. Btw, Kathy will be teaching this quilt again next month!
And this is what I’m calling our new favorite quilt. Jennifer pieced it quite a while ago and we wanted to big stitch hand quilt it. We finally figured that we are too far behind on our sewing projects and we’d rather just have it done. We chose a Baptist fan design which is consistent with the traditional look of the pattern (Summer House from Moda) yet also adds to the modern feel that the colors and woven textures give this quilt.
We used all Kaffe Fassett wovens, mostly because we wanted to use the new Ikat Streaks, and are in love with how it all turned out. One terrible piece of news though, is that Westminster, the company who makes all of Kaffe’s fabric, is no longer making Shot Cotton in Sludge. (Shot Cottons are Kaffe’s super soft solids that are woven with 2 different colors of thread.) Funny timing, since grey seems to be the new black, and has actually been our best-selling color of Shot. I wrote to Westminster to plead with them to bring back Sludge, and ask any of you who care to do the same by . Maybe if they realize there is a demand they’ll listen. Alright, down from the soap box.
These quilts are all in the shop now, and are of course much more fun to see in person. I’m aching to make stuff with Kaffe’s Fall collection, so hopefully we’ll have more to show off soon!
