Acorn Quilt
Here’s one of the physical projects I’ve been working on this year. This is my acorn quilt. As you can tell, I found fabric with acorns. This originally was meant to be a backer for a different quilt that I’ll be sharing later next week. It’s not really in a color palette that I honestly like, but it was fabric that was within my budget when I walked into Joann’s that day. It was cheaper than buying backer fabric that day at the very least.
Problem is, when I finally had all the pieces assembled – I couldn’t for the life of me figure out how I wanted to quilt it with the other topper I had made. A difference between tiny squares and massive triangles. After talking it out with my SO and then with my folks, we all came to the consensus that I just needed to wait until there was a good sale on backer fabric and buy it for both this quilt top and the other quilt top.
I did have extra fabric after making this (I think I could have made a king, but I have a queen) so, instead of adding it to my fabric stash, I threw together a pair of 18″x18″ pillow cases for the couch. That’s where this quilt is supposed to live. I hate throw blankets. They never cover my toes and my shoulders when I’m curled up on the couch. So, I decided to make double/queen size quilts – the size I like curling up under, for the couch. It may yet live on the bed anyways. I’m backing it this week with a pine themed green flannel that is sort of Christmas adjacent. I think it’ll work well for a November into December quilt.
This one I am hand quilting down with bulky thread so you can really see the stitches and am in love with this process, though it takes quite a bit of time. It’s going faster than an art quilt I’m very slowly hand quilting because that one has finer threads with more intent on the pattern to denote waves and umbrellas and such what have yous. That one I’ll share in a different post. That one is more of a summer theme.
Anyways. It’s been fun trying different styles of quilting. I’ll probably settle on one that I prefer doing and stick to it eventually, but for now, trying a wide variety of methods is a good way of learning.
Oh! Almost forgot. When I went in two weeks ago to pick up the backer for this quilt (huzzah for paydays, am I right?), I needed to buy binding fabric. I went back into the section where the Acorn fabric was to come to find out that fabric had a matching fabric of SQUIRRELS that weren’t there when I originally bought the fabric. They had gotten in the match sometime after I had last gone shopping. The pattern is a bit large for binding, but dang it I am binding this quilt with squirrels. I have some regrets of not having that fabric when I first made the quilt or else it would have been squirrels and acorns in the triangle pattern, but I’m accepting that I didn’t know about them and it is okay. Hopefully I’ll start the binding process sometime in November. For now, I’m hand binding a different quilt and that is taking up my evenings when I’m watching anime with my SO.
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