Monday, January 21, 2013

Pink-A-Lime-A-Tron

The lucky square quilt is finally finished and has a new name: Pink-a-lime-a-tron. Kim came up with the name. I'm so indecisive and not creative when it comes to naming.

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Details on the fabrics can be found here.

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Stats
Name: Pink-a-lime-a-tron
Size: 65"x85"
Pattern: Lucky Square from Sew Crafty Jess (available in her pattern shop or on Craftsy)
Machine pieced, quilted and bound a mi casa


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I forgot to take a picture of the back of the finished quilt so here is a full shot prequilting. The back is pieced with mostly flannel and a row of blocks highlighting the fabrics from the front. I had intended to use the purple dot only but I miscalculated how much I needed and had to go back and buy more. Joann's was out so I got some gray pebbly flannel. I am very happy with the way it looks.

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Here is most of the back after quilting.

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I quilted with an orange peel design except I peels are going from seam to seem instead of diagonally across the square.The texture it creates is just fantastic. I used Aurifil #1147 light leaf green for the top thread  Aurifil #2530 Watermelon pink for the bobbin. The pink really shows up on the green and gray fabrics but melts right into the purple dot.

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Now you can appreciate how much difference the quilting makes. And yes this did take hours. I used my home machine which has about 6 inches of throat space. It took about the same amount of time as it would to watch all the Pixar movies. Guess how I know that?

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And for the last touch of luxury, for the binding I used AMH good folks voile.

Linked up with Quilt Story: Fabric Tuesdays Crazy Mom Quilts and TGIFF. Hey I am real proud of this one :)

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11 comments:

  1. The whole thing is incredible, but are you kidding me with the quilting? A+ !!!

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  2. Oh my goodness that quilting looks amazing! And the name rocks, too :)

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  3. Wow! Love the quilting, that is so so awesome, and the name rocks! Thanks for helping me out :-)

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  4. That comment about the Pixar movies made me laugh! I often measure a project by the length of the tv show or movie I am watching. The piecing of the quilt I am working on right now took season 1 of West Wing... Perhaps we should develop a new measure of time?

    I love this quilt and that quilting looks wonderful!

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  5. Absolutely beautiful, you are "sew" talented!! :)

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  6. What a gorgeous quilt. Love the colours!
    Come check out my blog if you get a chance
    Leigh x
    http://www.thesewingdivaandherreluctantmodels.blogspot.co.uk

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  7. The name is almost as great as the quilt!

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  8. Lovely blanket in great colors :)
    Have a great weekend ..

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  9. Love it - what a great pattern! And I really like how you quilted it. Going to have to file that one away for future use.

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  10. Love the name almost as much as the quilt. Great quilting too -- it complements it beautifully. Thanks for linking up with TGIFF!

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  11. I was wondering how long it took you to do the quilting and you answered! Amazing! Such patience!

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