The name changed on this quilt. I finished up the binding on Thursday during some waiting room time. I was calling it Summer Effervescence, but ‘effervescence’ has been replaced with ‘pop’.
Three reasons for this:
1) Bubble quilting. Super fun to do. Jeffrey said he thought I was going to loose my mind doing it, but it’s kind of addicting. Highly recommend it if you are a newbie to free motion.
2) Pop Music. The waiting room solidified my distaste for Pop Music, so the word ‘Pop’ stuck in my head.
3) Soda Pop. I actually drank not one, but two pops as we call it where I come from in one day. This is unusual for me, but we went all American and had pizza for lunch and cheeseburgers for dinner and pop is the libation of choice with these foods.
The bubbles worked wonderfully on the flannel. Pulling it out of the dryer was the most joyful experience.
I was concerned that the quilting canceled out the prints, but I actually ended up liking the effect.
By the end I certainly had my stitch length down, thank goodness for flannel, washing and drying to meld all those stitches together.
Plain ole solid binding worked out fabulously. I think this is Kona Ice Frappe.
Now I need to vacuum up the dust, and LOOK sunshine! Seattle has only had something like 74 minutes of 80 degree weather this year…polar opposite of the rest of the country eh?
I always like to do a little clean up before I move onto the next project. It might look something like this.
Pulling from the strips scrap bucket. It’s too balanced in its blue/orange. I like to go more one color or another if it’s not scrappy. Although, now that I’ve seen this wonderfulness I want to abandon it all together.
Do you have proportions of color you aim for or a formula that works for you when choosing prints?
The quilt looks great and I love the bubble quilting! I’ve only done a little bit on a pillow…dying to do a whole quilt…I just love the look of it!
I love the way the quilting looks! And taking it out of the dryer is my favorite part of quilt-making!!
So you suggest this bubble quilting for a beginner, eh? I was going to try something like your whole cloth quilt – really need to buck up & just try it!
The bubbles would be perfect.
Love the bubble quilting, really makes it wonderful!
As far as color goes, I’m still awful about picking them and tend to go with what I really like, which sometimes ends up looking kind of awful. I’m getting better tho.
That’s where value is generally important. Practice makes perfect though.
Love the circles! and the new strip quilt looks great – I like the colour
Yummy! I love the bubble quilting. I hardly ever clean before I move on. I wait for total chaos to set in before I clean. If I can’t find my cutter, seam ripper or reading glasses, I know the time has come! As far as planning is concerned, I don’t plan at all. I grab and go, usually works, sometimes not so much.
Concerning color formulas: I think all is possible and depends most on intuition. There are concepts giving one color more quantitiy, or use it as a kind of founding which let the spice of another color pop out. I used this concept with my aqua and red quilt http://farbstoff-bridge.blogspot.com/2011/06/pattern-choices-for-modern-quilter.html: lots of blue and a bit of bright red.
But each formula has its right: You can combine colors in mostly the same proportion, and it looks good too. My pattern of orange and grey is very balanced: http://farbstoff-bridge.blogspot.com/2011/07/pattern-choices-for-modern-quilter.html, all colors of the same quantity.
What you will choose depends a bit of what you will express: a very balanced color pattern shows more the repeat of the blocks and says: “This is a quilt from soandso blocks in suchandsuch a kind of setting”. If you choose your color proportions in a way that you have large amounts of one color and spicy bits of another and in addition a color layout which is not of symmetry than you give the quilt a more artisitc look like a kind of image. The blocks and the quiltpattern are less showing off, instead you can dive into the depth of an imagination. Trust your instincts and follow the look you will end up with.
Your quilt looks fantastic, especially the bubbles! Thanks for suggesting that bubble quilting is good for fmq newbies — I just ordered myself a darning foot, and since I always like the look of bubble quilting, I’ll give that a shot first. 🙂
I definitely try to use an unbalanced proportion of colors in my quilts. For me it’s usually less of the warm colors and more of the cool colors. Not sure why, but it looks more interesting to me that way!
It’s pop in my world too. The first time I went to the US I was thoroughly confused by the word soda.
Formula? I try to keep in mind a balance between warm and cool, because warms advance and cools recede, but it is only a niggling thought in the back of my head. I actually worry more about value and texture mix when picking my fabrics.
Love the quilting you’ve done here. However, as a beginner, I think I’ll try and master those straight lines before I move on to the pretty bubbles :oD
I started with straight lines too, but I know a lot of quilters that started with fmq.
Bubbles for a FMQ newbie? That sounds good to me because the thought of stippling kind of freaks me out. My husband comes from Minnesota and it’s definitely POP there, not soda. And I love your quilt by the way. And also what you have on the design wall.
Love the bubble FMQ. I just completed a scrap wonky log cabin that needs a little more personality and this may be just the answer.
Please say when the kids are all back in school you will sit with me and work on free motion one day soon! I bought the darning foot, but I just don’t have the courage to try for some reason.
Oh yes, that will be fun. Potholders, here we come!
Thanks for your comment about my zinnias!
I’m glad to see the bubbles in your quilting. I like doing them, too!
Hullo Katie…
What an absolutely beautiful, colorful blog you’ve got. I started looking at and reading about your “Pop Summer” quilt….no wait, it’s “Summer Pop” … you see how the POP stuck in my head and from there I just kept on going backward to read what other fantastic “stuff” you had to say and made. I have to admit, your back blog entries must wait for later today…you’ve got me! I love it here!
The bubble quilting is fabulous… and, yes my favorite color combination is black, red and white. After that, it’s black and white and some zingy (one) color in all its glorious shades!
So I’m back to figure out how to follow your blog; realized that it might be best to follow at the end of this message…the other message was submitted prior to me figuring that out!!!
hugz
What, bubbles are good for beginners! Oh, I so crashed and burned when I tried that awhile ago. I so need a teacher. Really, really hoping I can pebble quilt someday.
round and round, make some pot holders. Something small and easy to move.
I adore the circular quilting on this!
The bubble quilting looks wonderful on white fabric- beautiful quilt!
I love the bubble quilting! I have never tried it, but after seeing this, I am going to have to try it. Thanks for the inspiration.