Shuttles Quilt top is finished

As I was making my Shuttles quilt I kept looking at the photo on the cover of Quilts in Morocco.  I worked out that the pieced border worked on their quilt because most of their blocks were made from solids. My blocks were highly patterned, so I decided that a fancy border wasn't going to work for my quilt.

The beauty with Kaffe Fassett prints is that they are so rich and densely patterned, they can do all the talking for you.  Who needs to spend days making fancy borders when you can just choose a gorgeous print and move onto the quilting?

I knew I wanted something lighter on the borders to contrast with the dark (Chocolate = brown) Aboriginal Dots I'd used on the corners and on the skinny border.

I remembered the crazy Jumble print in yellow that I'd seen at my local quilt shop a few months ago.  I liked it then, but really didn't know how I would use it.  Now I knew I had the perfect quilt for Jumble in Gold.  So I rushed out an bought enough to make nice wide borders.

I think it works really well, and will certainly make my quilt unique.

Now I'm thinking about the quilting.  I'm going to hand quilt this top, but just with simple diagonal lines like they've done in the book. I know I could do that on my domestic machine, but I love hand quilting - both seeing the stitches on a quilt, and the soft finish it gives a quilt. I'm going to use the bright yellow Aurifil 12wt for the hand quilting.

This quilt is about 63" x 70" because that's when I ran out of Aboriginal Dots. 

I love making straight forward Kaffe Fassett quilts.  They make me happy and provide a break from the long involved patterns I have bubbling away the background.