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.