The Fractals Quilt is Done!

I finished the Fractals quilt the other day.

The pattern comes from the book Quilt Lab by Alexandra Winston. It's probably going to be a gift for a couple I know who are friends of the family.

With big pieces and simple shapes it was very fast to piece and it's been in my pile of unfinished tops for quite a while.  I thought circles would work well for the quilting but I don't have the skills for that so I settled on almost-matchstick quilting for a modern look. One of my previous posts shows some pictures of that.

I tried to do that thing with the binding where you match the binding to the fabric around the outside of the quilt. I was inspired by a video from Karen Brown's Just Get it Done Quilts where she talked about how to do this. If you are looking for quilty YouTube people to follow I highly recommend Karen Brown's channel. It did take about 10x as long as a typical binding and it's not perfect but I'm pretty proud of it. A lot of the time I'm sewing on autopilot and it's always worthwhile to learn a new technique. I knew that I wasn't going to be happy doing the same fabric all the way around this quilt and this worked well.

I used my favorite Quilters Dream Green batting and Aurifil 50wt Aluminum thread for the quilting which I did in straight line 1/4 increments using my sewing foot as a guide. Because the quilting is relatively dense I did use a lot of thread and the quilt has a crunchy feel to it. Not my favorite but I think it will work for the recipients, who like a more modern style in their home decor.

Row of Cats

I finished this quilt a long time ago- I don't remember exactly but it's a couple of years. I checked the back and I didn't label it so who knows.

The pattern is called Row of Cats, by Gingiber. I had fun digging through my collection of black and white fabrics. My favorite is the Edward Gorey fabric third from the right on the bottom row. I suppose I could try to get better pictures of some of the individual blocks because they really are fun.

I don't remember what batting I used- probably not Dream Green because of all the white in the quilt. 

The pattern was pretty simple to put together but it's important to get that piecing done accurately or the cat parts don't line up correctly. It is traditionally-pieced.