Club Tropicana

I've finished my Swatch quilt and I've called it Club Tropicana. 

A while ago I started naming my quilts after my favourite songs from the 1980's and I loved Club Tropicana by Wham.  Here's link to the video in case you need a reminder.  This quilt does have some palm trees it in and the bright yellows remind me of pineapples, so Club Tropicana seemed appropriate. 

This was a quick and easy quilt to make and it will be perfect for my older son.  I won't have to worry about it living on the floor!

I'm proud to say that I made this one from my stash.  I got it quilted at Busy Bee Quilt Shop in Wellington with a modern design.

It's quite a big quilt, and I didn't want to have to piece a backing, so I chose this wonderful Kaffe wide back and I love it.  My son can use it either side up now.  

Finished size 60" x 72"

I cut my blocks at 5.5" x 9.5"

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Swatch Quilt

Remember those fabrics I showed you last week? Well, I cut them up and made the world's fastest quilt pattern - the Swatch Quilt by Ruby Star Society. 

I chose some fairly bold prints for this quilt, but I think they all work together because I've limited the colour palette to blue, yellow and pink/red/orange, with black to break it up.  I resisted my usual urge to add green because it would have been too much.  

Plaids: by Kaffe Fassett Collective and also Kathy Doughty

Yellow spots: Alison Glass

Blue birds: After the Rain by Bookhou for Conservatory Craft

Orange stripes and red/yellow check: Denyse Schmidt

Palm trees: Cotton + Steel

So you can see I have a very eclectic mix of fabrics in my stash. Yes, this quilt is 100% from my stash.

 

I tweaked the measurements and pattern slighty because I wanted my quilt to be big enough to cover the top of a queen sized bed. I'm really happy with how it turned out.  It's currently at the Busy Bee Quilt Shop for long arm quilting because I'm know it's going to be well used, and I prefer machine quilting for quilts that are going to be thrown on the floor.  And hand quilting would just get lost amongst all of this pattern and colour.

Now it's time for the Peacock Party.  Feel free to link up a recent blog post below.

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