The Charlotte Quilt in Pure Solids
When I was thinking about potential fabric choices for the cover of the Charlotte Quilt, I decided I knew I wanted to go with solids. While the pattern is also great for prints (I have to samples to show you with prints!) I wanted the quilt on the cover to be a little more bold and solids felt like the right choice.
I started digging through my Pure Elements solid and pulled out colors that felt a little cohesive but also a little scrappy. These are the colors I used in my quilt:
Coconut Milk (background fabric)
Yes, that is a lot of colors, but that works out to 1 jelly roll per color. You could definitely make the quilt with fewer colors and use fat quarters — just pick your favorites!
Getting the photo for the cover quilt was a bit of a fluke. We normally take quilt photos in the field by our house in the evenings, but we had been having so much rain that we hadn't had a chance. One morning the lighting was gorgeous, but the only one home was my 13 year old. We rushed out to the field and there was a layer of mist — it was so pretty! He is a little shorter than my normal quilt holder so he isn't quite clearing the ground.
The backing fabric is one of my favorite Maureen Cracknell prints. This isn't the first time I have used this print (I used it for binding here, for backing here) and I still just love it so much. We need more purple fabrics!
The quilting was done by my most favorite long arm quilters, Heidi of Piece and Joy Quilt Co. I wasn't sure what I wanted for the quilting and she suggested this really pretty leafy panto. It is so perfect! I love the organic quilting with the more structured quilt top.
I have a couple more samples to share with you this week and then one more that probably won't be ready until next week — I got a little carried away making samples for this one!
You can find the Charlotte Quilt Pattern in my shop now and I have linked to all of the Pure Elements solids up above.
Vicki on
Hi Erica
I love the Charlotte quilt and am ready to sew my blocks together but I’m concerned about the size of the edge triangles. Against my better instincts, I have cut the blocks in half as directed to make the triangles but they seem too small. I’ve started unpicking the acute triangles to replace them with larger scraps which I will trim later but this all seems crazy! Any suggestions or advice?
Thank you.
Susan on
Thanks so much for posting the colors; this helps tremendously! As I sew with only AGF fabrics, I know their names, but you might want to clarify for others that this is the AGF Pure Solids line of colors.
Wonderful pattern! I have made so many of yours and all turned out terrifically. But I miss Grumpy Tom peeking over the quilt!