If you are following my blog for a while you might have noticed I’m not making as many quilts as I used to. I still have lots of ideas but they take a lot of time, so I must have a good reason for making one. And wedding / house warming gift for a wonderful couple we become to know since we moved here to Suffolk is a wonderful reason!

And so I started by asking the bride … If I were to MAKE you a present would you prefer it to go into your living room or a bedroom? Either way would be lovely was the answer – so very helpful 🙂 Then I asked if she’d preferred modern or traditional design – hoping she will pick modern as I’m not keen on little squares and triangles anymore – only to hear traditional as reply. So my heart sank twice over not at all helpful answers.

I didn’t really let that discourage me though. I wanted to make something from my heart to her heart. And so I choose a Jelly roll we had in the shop in the colours I knew would be her cup of tea and  settled on a design which was right on the cross between modern and traditional. I divided  jelly roll strips into 4 groups coming from lighter to darker and sewn 4 strips together – one from each group. Pressed them and cut into equilateral triangles. Then I took my pin up board and pin them on to see how it’s going to work together and also how big quilt it’s going to make. I was lucky that it just fitted double bed, so that was my front. To extend it bit I have added green fabric on the top and bottom which I have also used for binding …

This is the finished quilt – but that’s not the full story of the quilt. The big story is happening on the other side of it! I’ll tell you all about it some other day …

Thank you for reading

Vendulka