Tumbler quilt

Imaginative title, isn't it. I'm a bit tired today, sorry.

This is the quilt I made from tumbler blocks from my Accuquilt Go! baby which I was lucky enough to win over at A Spoonful of Sugar.

I had a bunch of largish Innocent Crush scraps that I wanted to do something with and these blocks turned out to be just the ticket.

A night to crank them all out and then another two (long) nights to sew them all together.

After a great deal of consideration as to how I wanted the colours to work together.

I had to pad it out with some Joel Dewberry Heirloom yellows as my Innocent Crush scraps were lacking in that area. A little Loulouthi blue snuck in there too (I love how well all of AMH's collections play together) :

Then there was a looooong delay as I considered how I wanted to quilt it. I really liked other tumbler block quilts where the quilting zig-zagged following the seams, but knew it wasn't what I wanted for this one. I wanted something that worked with the design as a whole, rather than with the individual pieces.

So after much umming and ahhing and sketching I went with what I called kapow quilting.

So named because it reminds me of cartoon panels whenever a character gets punched. Kapow!

I won't lie, it was a pain in the butt pivoting the quilt at the end of each point - no way I'd use this design for anything bigger than a baby quilt.

The backing continues the Anna Maria Horner theme with a Good Folks flannel in raspberry. Mmm.

Binding is scrappy so that it blends in better with the outer rows of the quilt - I wasn't looking for a frame effect.

I really love the way it turned out and will be more than a little sad when I give this away to someone (I think it's more a little girl quilt).

Final measurements are 36 x 40 inches.

I've entered this in the final month of Stitched in Color's Celebrate Colour competition. Still some time - have you got your entry in?

Celebrate Colour entry details