Scaffold Quilt
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My first line of fabrics, Fanfare, reprinted this fall and included a line of coordinating flannel solids. As soon as they arrived on my doorstep I felt they deserved their own quilt, the combination of these solid pastels seemed just right. I love plus patterns in quilts, and I wanted the pluses to run into each other a bit (inspired by this design, though I’m not sure…is that a quilt? Or a piece of art? not sure). The result is that the narrow bands remind me of scaffolding.
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When it comes to making quilts, I enjoy the piecing but I am not a huge fan of the actual quilting bit (by which I mean the stitching through the layers to hold everything together), so the quilting was pretty spare: just a simple stitch-in-the-ditch type situation along the narrow bands to form an allover tic-tac-toe stitching pattern. I also like how the back turned out -- four simple squares to complement the front -- not too boring, but not too fussy.
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As far as creating the quilt top, I think anyone with basic piecing skills could replicate this -- it's 16 blocks, and the smaller squares are 6.5" and the narrower strips are 2.5" wide. The final quilt is maybe about 60" square? Dunno -- didn't measure and didn't do the math.
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Anyway, I love how modern and uncomplicated this turned out. Baby quilts are my favorite kind of quilt -- pretty quick to piece together, easy to quilt (no long-arm needed, though I do use a walking foot), and they make great gifts (this one in fact is headed to a cousin's new baby). Aren't flannels the perfect cosy fabric?
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