I have been playing a lot of Nintendo's Animal Crossing on the Switch this summer and my favorite thing to do is breed hybrid flowers. I realize now that my quilts are total HYBRIDS! I use the pattern as a guide but make the pieces a different way. This is just a personal preference and in no way diminishes the pattern maker - I just do better with certain tools and methods.
Lets begin.
The pattern I used is Terrazzo by Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced. A beautiful design and she breaks it down with excellent directions and diagrams. The quilt's optical illusion of curves is achieved through V-Blocks, Half Square Triangles and squares in a square. A very similar quilt pattern to this is Fig Tree & Co.'s Nine Patch Waltz.
I made the half square triangles in the traditional way but used Deb Tucker's V-Block and Square Squared rulers for the other units. Her method of making larger sizes and then trimming down works for me every time.
The fabrics are muted colors of pink, blue, purple and brown from Plum Garden by Tilda. The blue is Tilda's solid in Lupine, all against a background of Kona white.
I fussy cut all the ducks for the centers of the larger units - and was extremely lucky to be able to color balance everything.
The border is a combo of leftover fussy cut ducks and scraps cut into 2.5" squares.
This wrinkly blanket has no batting but a layer of not so great white flannel as its middle. The back fabric is deep blue shot cotton by Kaffe Fassett in Denim. Quilting was super simple - following the seams in a wavy line stitch to make a 4" grid. Aurifil 50wt. thread #2311 muslin on the top, and #1248 blue on the bottom.
While it's flimsy nature and simple quilting won't win any beauty awards - it's a perfect lightweight blanket to wrap up in and takes little space for storage. A great pattern and guidance from Lee Heinrich of Freshly Pieced, tools from Deb Tucker Studio 180 and her videos on how to use them on YouTube - and of course, Tilda's super pretty fabric. Voilà- a hybrid quilt is born!
Materials:
Plum Garden and Lupine (blue) by Tilda
Kona white
Kaffe Fassett shot cotton / Denim
White flannel
Pattern: Terrazzo by Lee Heinrich/Freshly Pieced
Aurifil 50 wt. Thread #2311 (muslin) and #1248 (blue)
Deb Tucker: V Block & Square Squared rulers
Size: 64" x 68"
August 2020
