When I first started quilting, my Mum recommended that I read a few chapters of The Art of Classic Quiltmaking by Harriet Hargrave and Sharyn Craig. When my boyfriend T said he wanted to make a quilt, I made him read the same few chapters. His quilt is based on a pattern in the book, which I scaled up so that he could make a full sized quilt without too many tiny pieces.
All fabrics were sourced from local quilting shops. The dark fabrics are japanese indigo quilting cottons. The medium blues are random quilting cottons, and the cream is actually quite an interesting slightly textured fabric with light brown and blue stitches in it.
The backing fabric is rather lovely, and reflects T's love of chillies. The quilt is bound in the same fabric. The quilting was again done by Sue Burnett on her long-arm machine, in T's design.
My contribution (other than the teaching) is a matching pillow in the same fabrics and pattern, scaled down.
This was a good way to use up some of the scraps and "reject" blocks that didn't make it into the final quilt.
The quilt and pillow together. Teaching someone totally new to quilting was quite an interesting experience. T did very well on the cutting and sewing side of things, and put the quilt together well and very quickly. The part he found most difficult was choosing the fabrics - I think it was a bit of an exercise in frustration for him. He obviously enjoyed the experience overall though, because this is not the last quilt he has made.
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