Friday, June 14, 2013

The Terrain quilt

My first introduction to Kate Spain's Terrain was a charm pack bought at a little quilt shop in QLD whilst on holidays in May 2011. I loved the line and with the aid of another charm pack ordered online from the same little shop, I made a pinwheels quilt as a gift for my friend's wedding in Oct 2011.

Pinwheels quilt in progress


But I wanted a Terrain quilt too!! I bought 2 layer cakes and then life got in the way......come 2012 and I was thinking I would make a quilt using half square triangles. So I got to work and made a whole heap of HST.....only to find that it didn't do it for me :( 

So I played around a bit and came up with this design, with the fabrics grouped (loosely) in colour ways and surrounded with a corresponding solid ( thanks to Sandy at Wrapped in Fabric for putting together a great Terrain/solid bundle).

The quilt is King size, my biggest yet! By the time I had finished piecing the top and back, I was really beyond quilting it. Queue my new friend Jenny - who saved the day and quilted this quilt for me in a giant stipple.

The back is white, with a strip of layer cake pieces down the centre.






Finished off with scrappy binding, I can now say I really love this quilt!



A shot of the quilt in our king size bed.


I still have some of the layer cake fabric left over.....and I have plans to do something with that in the next few weeks...maybe some pillows to match!

Today I am linking up with the lovely  Alyce from Blossom Heart quilts as part of the Kate Spain blog hop!

**Please excuse my dodgy pics - only had the Ipad to play with!**



11 comments:

  1. Wow that is amazing! Huge! And so colourful. What a stunning view you have from your bedroom too!

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  2. Gorgeous Kate Spain quilt with an equally gorgeous view - man, you've got it all Marieka!

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  3. Just love this quilt Marieka! I think it's one of my favourites of yours!

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  4. Oh love love love your king size quilt and your pinwheels are fab too.

    And I agree with Alyce, what an awesome view!

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  5. so so pretty. I didn't realise Terrain was such a beautiful line until I saw this :-)

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  6. It seams you can never go wrong with Kate Spain LOL, Lovlely quilt!!!

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  7. what a beautiful quilt; your work in playing with the design paid off!! I love the pinwheel quilt too! You must love waking up to that gorgeous view every morning!!

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  8. Marieka it's beautiful!! Love!

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  9. Glad you are back and showing off your talent again. It took Kate Spain though.

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