Saturday, February 14, 2015

Finished Supernova Swap Quilt

YAY!!!
I finally finished putting my supernova swap quilt together: 


My partner Amy and I swapped 5 blocks over 5 months to put this quilt together for the Supernova Friendship swap (organized by Stephanie of Late Night Quilter and Sandra of One million stitches -- based on a Quilt-Along from Lee at Freshly Pieced.)

I tried to get some nice, sunny photos on the coast this morning, but it was a little to windy and sunny.


We both used a bundle of AE Nathan's Quiltology, along with our own scraps to make the blocks. Our color theme was aqua, blue, green, orange and gray. It's hard to tell in the photos, but we used Lizzy House's pearl bracelet in sandbox for the background fabric. I'm glad we went with the sandbox, it looks great against the bright colors we used without being too stark.


I hand quilted around and inside each block segment using black perle cotton. I was a little nervous using black thread against such a light background, but I think it really pops! I think any other color would have gotten lost, and there's no point in spending 3 months hand quilting something if it's not going to show up!

 

You can really see the hand quilting on the scrappy back. I bound this with a Denyse Schmidt print I got at Joann's. I went back and forth on the binding a lot, I was afraid this was too light, but I think the coral and blue does fit perfectly with the colors in our blocks.  
 
 

I loved the process of making this quilt, and the bright colors make me so happy! I have been enjoying looking at everyone else's finished quilts, and I can't wait to see how my partner Amy's quilt turns out!

Because we swapped for 5 months, and the top only requires 9 blocks, I did have an extra block which I turned into a cushion.


I'll be linking up my finished quilt on the Supernova Swap Flickr group.

This is also one of my finishes for Q1 of the 2015 FAL. I've actually finished 5/9 of my projects, but haven't posted the rest of them. Better get on it!

Happy Valentine's Day!

This week I'm linking up with Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story,  NTT Thursday at My Quilt Infatuation, Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts and the Weekly Inspiration Linky Party at Nini and The Sea

21 comments:

  1. Very nice! Your hand quilting looks great and I do like how it shows on the backing, too. You are making great progress on your Q1 goals; awesome!

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  2. This is just gorgeous - really love your handquilting!

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  3. I am so impressed with everyone's Supernova swaps. I will have to do something like this one day - a partner block swap. Maybe next year when my round robins are behind me.

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  4. Wow Kate! It's sooooo lovely. I have a thing for quilts with bright colors and white backgrounds. They get me every time! Your sis so special because of the hand quilting. I think you might be the only one who did that, and the result is incredibly gorgeous! Thank you for participating in this project!!

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  5. Kate! I love the hand quilting you did, it looks so great! I think it's so cool the way it shows on the back too. When you hand quilt, do you have a large quilting frame you use or something hand held? I would love to hand quilt, but the one and only time I tried it, it was a disaster! LOL You did a great job!

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  6. Fabulous! Your hand quilting looks awesome!! Congrats on a very beautiful finish :)

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  7. Love the handquilting - just adds that extra something to it!

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  8. I adore the palette you two decided upon, and the Lizzy House print makes for a great background. You were so brave -- and dedicated! -- to devote that much time to handquilting in a dark cotton, but the quilting really makes the end result special. Well done!

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  9. Really nice ... I love the way the solids on the back show off the quilting.

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  10. The dark colored hand stitching looks really nice on this quilt- what a gorgeous finish!

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  11. Yours is the second Supernova I've seen this week - I love the design and your fabrics choices are really cool!

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  12. Gorgeous colors, beautiful quilt! The quilting looks great too. What a great finish.

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  13. What a fun quilt. The black hand quilting is perfect on it. Well done. www.quiltartbymegan.com

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  14. Such a gorgeous quilt!!! And the quilting makes it shine :-)

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  15. I adore this quilt...beautifully done!

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  16. This is on my Bucket List...yours is gorgeous!

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  17. Such a gorgeous quilt - what a super finish. Good work on your 2015 FAL list!!

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  18. I love it, Kate! The hand quilting makes it!

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  19. I love it, Kate! The hand quilting makes it!

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  20. A great finish! The hand quilting is amazing! Well done!

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