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Home / Finished Quilts / Full Tilt Quilt

Full Tilt Quilt

March 14, 2017 By Katie

sew katie did | Seattle Modern Quilting and Sewing Studio | Full Tilt QuiltWell hi there;)

On my flight to teach in Jackson Hole I finished the binding on what I’ll call Full Tilt.  I always love to have something new to share and this was just in time for a line up of winter-spring lectures and workshops teaching this block.

 Traveling and spending time with my tribe is such a bonus of being in this industry and you quilters are the nicest people.  The inspiration you pull from your own toolbox when given a few improv techniques and a little structure is quite energizing even when I feel a little exhausted.  It all kind of kicks my brain and my wanderlust into overdrive.

Travel on top of the home front’s Open Studios and Workshops hasn’t allowed me a lot of time to get ideas out of my own head and into fabric.  Good things take time I hear, and in the meantime I’ve been directing my sewing groove into quick projects we can explore in Open Studio like these reversible grocery bags and rope bowls.

Sew Katie Did | Seattle Modern Quilting & Sewing Studio | Full Tilt Quilt| Inspiration |

I know, again with the Psychedelic Baby Block.  You all might be sick of seeing this block, but I have yet to scratch the design surface with it and its secondary block that we make in this workshop.  Full Tilt’s colorway was this sweet geometric dress I found in a catalog.  Its layout is simple and inspired by another string quilt I made this year.

I noticed in lecturing this season that my solids have shifted over the years from a abundance of Osnaburgh to Essex.  Solid fabric quilts can be so flat and the indigo here adds some much-needed texture.  I went with 4 different blues, including some shot cotton and the Essex.  The rest of the solids are a mix of Kona and Michael Miller Cotton Couture.

sew katie did | Seattle Modern Quilting & Sewing Studio | Full Tilt Quilt | Quilting |

I was asked in a lecture this month who was the favorite to quilt my quilts?  I whole heartedly answered “Me.”

sew katie did | Seattle Modern Quilting and Sewing Studio | Full Tilt QuiltI didn’t always feel this way.  Often it was where I stalled out on a finish. I didn’t feel I had the skills or vision to free-motion with the amount of precision I desired.  I know, I know, ‘practice is the best teacher,’ and I did that, but I was just never feeling it with free-motion as I did with a straight line.

It took time for me, years actually, to figure out that my quilts really didn’t need the fancy quilting I thought they did.  It often distracted or even clashed with the piecing, stealing the limelight. I think my patchwork holds its own quite well.

sew katie did | Seattle Modern Quilting and Sewing Studio | Full Tilt QuiltOnce I just started quilting straight lines I lost the anxiousness AND actually started finishing quilts at a faster rate.  Straight-line quilting felt intuitive to me.  Another unexpected discovery was I liked my quilts more.  Now they’re a 100% ME from start to finish.

The quilts I have with a variety of straight line quilting keeps building.  As I was getting my Straight Line Quilting Workshop together, I first thought I would quilt some simple panels in a variety of designs until I realized how many samples of straight line quilting I already had.  Actual quilts to demonstrate the tips and tricks, just like my other classes, duh.

That’s a long-winded way of saying Full Tilt got a simple grid in a light pink Metler thread and I like it;)

Sew Katie Did | Seattle Modern Quilting & Sewing Studio | Full Tilt Quilt| Binding & Backing |

I went pieced.  I considered the navy to frame, but regardless I had to order fabric for the finish.  I thought it would carry the piecing of the blocks onto the edge for a detailed addition to the design.

Sew Katie Did | Seattle Modern Quilting & Sewing Studio | Full Tilt QuiltMy technique for this is to strip piece some panels and sub-cut them to the binding’s width.  I sew it on until I’m about to turn a corner and then I’ll add a larger strip of one fabric that accommodates the turn so that I don’t have seams stuck in the miter.  Once the corner is turned I reattach my pieced binding and continue until I come to the next corner.

I have a whole photo shoot of this process that some day I’ll get up here as a tutorial.

sew katie did | Seattle Modern Quilting and Sewing StudioI haven’t bought backing fabric in ages, just pulling and piecing from stash,  I don’t see a noticeable dent honestly.  Apparently I bought up all of this flannel so that none of you could have any.  I’ve used it to back several quilts.  The vans have now made an appearance in the blue and pink.  It all seemed to compliment the front and come together simple enough.

sew katie did | Seattle Modern Quilting 7 Sewing Studio | Full Tilt Quilt All in all I love it;)

 I’ve added a few more dates for the straight line quilting workshop onto the schedule, including an evening slot as requested.  I also have a reader coming to the studio from Germany that picked playing with the Psychedelic Baby Block if anyone would like to join us.  Just follow the links;)

Happy week Peeps!  I’m actually heading out to the studio;)

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  1. Marla@pennylanequilts says

    March 14, 2017 at 8:18 am

    That binding is the perfect finish, as well as the double grid quilting. Looking forward to taking this workshop!

    • Katie says

      March 15, 2017 at 8:22 am

      Will be fun to have you there!

  2. Karen Anderson Abraham says

    March 14, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    I haven’t looked at a quilt blog in months and have been on a two+ year long hiatus from quilting, so this beauty of yours made my heart skip a beat. Wow, your color choices are perfect and I never get tired of seeing what you do with the PBB!! Thanks for sharing such great details of your process!

    • Katie says

      March 15, 2017 at 9:03 am

      I was wondering how you were:) So glad to see you back!

  3. suzi l. says

    March 14, 2017 at 1:02 pm

    Free motion quilting to straight line…a case of
    been there, done that, don’t need that.
    whodda thought it if you didn’t go there first?
    Kudos to you…must feel good to be where
    you know you want to be…

    wish i could attend a class of yours…down here
    in south bay california…do you ever do an
    on line class? fingers crossed..

    • Katie says

      March 15, 2017 at 9:22 am

      Someone else emailed me from there with the same question. I’ll try to get my act together;)

  4. Paige @ Quilted Blooms says

    March 14, 2017 at 2:37 pm

    Love your thoughts on the quilting! I like straight line quilting too!

    • Katie says

      March 15, 2017 at 9:23 am

      Thanks for stopping by!

  5. Jodie Richeal says

    March 14, 2017 at 3:04 pm

    Beautiful job – LOVE the pieced binding. I know it took extra time – but SO worth it!

    • Katie says

      March 15, 2017 at 9:23 am

      Thanks Jodie! I agree it makes it;)

  6. Sue Schultz says

    March 14, 2017 at 5:01 pm

    Love the colors in this quilt!! Beautiful work.

  7. Katie says

    March 15, 2017 at 9:26 am

    Me too! Thanks for the positive reinforcement.

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