Shaz’s LOL Quilt

Wouldn’t it be great if I actually showed you the quilts that I make, right here on the blog? What a fancy-shmancy idea, eh? I promise you I haven’t been sitting up here on my velvet throw pillows, sipping martinis, and flicking my blonde hair extensions. Wait. Okay, I have been doing that, but I haven’t just been doing that. I’ve also been sewing in between the shmalapalooza that life sometimes brings my way, your way … our way.

One of my recent flimsy finishes is this beauty I call Shaz’s LOL Quilt. Titled so, as it is for a good friend of mine whose nickname is Shaz, it’s made from Liberty of London (LOL), it’s a quilt, and we’ve had too many LOL moments to count. He recently left me–that bitch–to take a job in Singapore. So I’m like, who needs a quilt in Singapore, where it’s a thousand degrees in the dead of winter. So I’m hoping he hangs it on his wall, or drapes it over a couch, just to give his new home a spruce of sparkle.

This quilt actually started at his request. He had purchased several scrap packs of LOL fabric just because he thought it was pretty. (I secretly think he’s a gay). See, LOL! So he gave it to me with the request to turn pretty into prettier. He had already been down a Google rabbit hole of LOL quilts that led him to find Red Pepper Quilts. He was enamoured with her use of LOL fabric and Essex Linen. So I grabbed her tutorial and went to work.

Y’all know though that I can’t just be all copy-cat like that. I gots to make it my own, right? So instead of just using the Essex Linen, I started throwing in a splattering of similarly coloured grey metallic fabrics, as well as the metallic Essex Linen. The metallic Essex Linen can be a little temperamental to work with (turn the iron down), but it has a subtle shift that gives the quilt more depth. Oh and honey-child, it has a sparkle that you wouldn’t believe. So not only do you get that LOL goodness, you get a shimmy shimmy coco pop realness!

All of those square are 2″ finished, so in its entirety it finishes at 56″ x 72″. It’s a good one to sit on your lap, much like Shaz himself! I’ve got this baby off at the longarmer (woop! woop!), and once I get it back I’ll be whipping a stitch like a bitch in heat! There’s a special surprise for the backing, but binding … ooh la la. Solid colour? A pop of lime? What say you out there?

Also, sidebar: How great is this white on white wall as a backdrop? It’s a recent find, that I need more of in my life!