I just finished this quilt top and this is the last you will see of it, because a friend quilts all our group’s quilts for Flying Horse Farms. She even binds them, so after I give her the top, backing, batting, and binding, I’m done! Such a deal, right?
Although I like this quilt, I can’t really recommend the pattern because of the way it’s printed. The layout is clever, but the publisher obviously wanted to save paper and ink so the illustrations aren’t placed with the text–you have to keep going to the next page to see what they’re talking about! Thus a pattern that should have been easy was kind of a pain.
Quilt Stats
Name: Tranquility
Finished size: 60″ x 70″ (which was a 6-yard quilt, not 3-yard)
Pattern by: Fabric Cafe, from the book Make It Modern With 3-Yard Quilts
Pieced by: me
To be quilted and bound by my friend Jerri!
Zippy Quilts 
It’s always disappointing to purchase a pattern that’s not well-written. Like you, I can usually spot the ways a pattern can be improved… and wish it had been. Nonetheless, your quilt is lovely. You make me dream about a day when I can pass along a quilt top and know it will be finished. Maybe that will be what it’s like when I’m in heaven!
Haha! Yes, longarm quilters surely are going to heaven with us!
HA! After your explanation of the trials of this particular pattern…and yet you named the finished quilt “Tranquility”. And it does seem to fit!
It occurs to me that it epitomizes a truth that regardless of the backstory of a quilt, piece of music, heck – a life – its/ones true character comes forth and cannot be forever concealed. Just a bit of Sunday philosophizing! 🙂
BTW: I know what you mean about incomplete instructions, etc…I found that to be the case with our shared experiences with the free pattern we downloaded from the Carole Lyles Shaw lecture. Right off the bat, I didn’t know cut dimension instructions needed to have a 1/4 in seam allowance added and from the get go after cutting I had to make numerous adjustments – well you get the picture. BTW: it doesn’t diminish my respect and admiration for CLS’s designs/work (RIP)
I just finished a quilt with some of my Ankara fabrics and thought back to that class. Maybe we’ll find another lecture to “attend” together.
Yess!
Great use of blue! And such a deal, the quilter, binder.
Thanks! And indeed we are lucky to have the quilter/binder friend!
Nice quilt! Too bad the pattern was not well organized. But congrats on making through it!
Thank you!
A lovely, calming quilt (despite the challenges of the badly laid out pattern). I do applaud you and you and your long armer friend for the donation quilts you make
Thanks, Mariss. I do like the quilt top, as you say despite the problems with the pattern.