WIDRN Wednesday: the one with peacocks!

I swear this is one of the fastest quilts I've ever made. Less than a month from pieces to full top!

The Communique Quilt is a pattern set up by Andrea of Mouse In My Pocket and I've had this fabric collection (centered around the Timeless Treasures Plume collection of 2013) for, well, a decade and change. I added a few extra fabrics to it - at least one of them is from 'Valley of Kings', a Robert Kaufman collection of the same vintage as Plume - and popped in a blender or two, and a solid here and there.

I laid out a few blocks to get a feel for the design, and in the end just decided to go for it.

And boy howdy!

It seemed once I'd started putting this together, I couldn't stop. I've spent almost every spare hour on this thing since I started, all the way up until Sunday night when I finished the last seam. WHEW.

An initial problem with the quilt is that the pattern has finished block sizes, and I forgot that... Cue me cutting all the peacock blocks a half-inch too small! ARGH! So I ended up having to put borders around them all and...I think it works better in fact! The framing really draws the eye to the block, highlighting the panels in a way that the other 'panel pieces' (the butterflies) don't get. And the colours are just a beautiful mix - azure and gold and aqua and jet.

The pattern size was for a 'throw', but even that was pretty huge, so I took two twelve-inch-high sections out of it (the quilt is built in rectangles, so you can pieces bits of it and then sew them together) and replaced the second 16" block with another panel and some more blocks. I had some blocks pieced, but they just didn't work for the quilt. I'm using them in a 'remainders' quilt with the rest of the scraps from these two quilts. And there are still scraps, of course. There are always scraps...

I took various pictures of them by internal lights at night, a few bad ones during a morning where there wasn't enough sun, and then I just took them outside and photographed them against the neighbour's hedge. I think I might end up doing that more often with my quilts, especially the large ones!

It was going to be for a couple of cousins, but after B1 saw it, she was all "Ooh, I'd like it!" And I figured that I haven't given her and B2 matching quilts yet, so they're getting these two and the cousins can have something else.

I'm kinda glad that they're going to the twins rather than the cousins, tbh. I'll make something else for the cousins...