Quilt Finish – Prism

If you thought my last quilt finish, Twisted Butlers, was suggesting that I’d gone all Earth-goddess, neutrals and heavy cream, well think again! I’m back today to show you that I’ve still got most of my toes well-dipped in a lake of saturated colours. You know rainbows, ombré, and sparkles are some of my favourite things! Well this quilt finish, quite literally has combined all three. Oh stop it! I can’t even talk about how much I love it.

Well maybe I can talk a little bit about it! I finished this quilt top in November, 2021 after buying a  V and Co ombré, fairy dust, jelly roll. Click here if you’d like to read a more detailed history and process of making this quilt top. Suffice it to say, I was in heaven working with these fabrics and it all came together really quickly. Don’t you wish all quilts were like that!?

While I was spending last summer gallivanting around the Mediterranean, I left a heap of finished quilt tops with Mount Vincent Quilts. I picked out this tubular, psychedelic motif for the longarm quilting as it felt like something from Fantasia or Alice In Wonderland. Can’t you just see the Cheshire Cat disappearing into the back of this quilt? Speaking of, the backing is a combination of two wovens from Giucy Giuce’s Entwine collection: Persimmon Static and Teal Intersect.

I love the balance of these two fabrics playing with each other on the back. So as not to interrupt the colour-blocking on the back of the quilt, I used a pieced binding in the same fabrics. The woven fabrics obviously have a looser weave, so I’m interested to see how this quilt holds up in the wild. This will probably end up being the hardest thing about this quilt: deciding who gets it! Until then I’ll probably just put it on my own couch so I can start everyday with a prism of colour.

Title: Prism
Size: 54″ x 54″
Pattern: Jelly Rainbow by Rashida Coleman Hale of Ruby Star Society
Fabric: Moda Ombre Fairy Dust Metallic jelly roll by V and Co
Piecing: Machine stitched on Juki TL-98P with Aurifil 50wt, White 2024
Quilting: Long arm quilting by Mount Vincent Quilts
Binding: Hand stitched with Aurifil 50wt, Blossom Pink 2530
Backing: Entwine woven fabrics, Persimmon in Static and Teal in Intersect by Giucy Giuce for Andover Fabrics
Timing: November 2021 – December 2022
Favourite Part: Making something so spectacular with such little materials, time or effort.