Kirke's quilt is coming out in the simplest pattern of all, made of squares. As material for this quilt I am using dress shirts in pink and lilac tones. There are striped and checked ones, pale pinks, cherry reds, greys with pink and so on. Very sweet colours and pleasant fabrics.
Kirke loves butterflies, and three embroidered butterflies will find a place on her quilt as well. The cherry red silk blouse I did not cut into squares. It will become rosettes on the quilt. To make things more fun for the butterflies.
All the labels and embroidered logos that were on the shirts found a place in the squares of the quilt too.
And pockets 🙂 Like Karl's quilt, Kirke's quilt gets secret pockets. Girls always have many small secrets
and smaller sweet little things to hide from other eyes. Especially when you have 3 brothers 🙂 The pockets are exactly as small as the other squares in the quilt's pattern, closed with a miniature button. Some pockets have an open edge, a corner of a former shirt pocket with an embroidered logo on the corner.
The numbers.
The quilt will be 140 x 200 cm.
One square is 12 x 12 cm.
Seam allowances 1 cm; after sewing the block is 10x10 cm.
There will be 14x20 = 280 squares
Cutting.
This time too I did not count how many squares there were while cutting. Roughly by the stack, so there would be enough and some to spare. No need to worry that some colour will run out before the end. A few front pieces and a couple of sleeves were left whole, so I might make cushion covers or something else from the leftovers to go with the quilts.
Cutting as with the previous quilt: I laid identical pieces (sleeves, for instance) on top of one another, cut them into 12 cm strips, lined the ends up and trimmed them straight. Then all of it into squares. From the strips left over I cut pieces for the next quilt. The other quilts have a denser pattern and need more colours.
Sewing the pattern.
I sorted the squares by colour into stacks. There were 3 particularly dark shirts; the remaining 6 were light. That way I know in advance how densely to place the dark ones. I sew the squares together in rows of 14 squares, that is the width of the quilt. There will be 20 rows, that is the length of the quilt.
The first row I sewed together at random. Then I laid the finished rows of squares beside the sewing table, so that when choosing the order of colours for the next row I could look at the previous ones: where the lighter ones go, where the darker. On striped fabrics the stripes run more or less alternately, that is either upright or flat.
Now look at the pictures and the comments below them.
The patterned top of the quilt is finished. It looks so simple, but there is a fair amount of fine fiddling behind a proper result.
The colours in the pictures are sadly wrong, at least on my screen. In reality there are sweet delicate pink and lilac tones together with a pleasant cherry red.
