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Commonly, we Patchworkers all suffer under the same "viral infection". A distinctive fabric-obsession. No fabric store is safe from us. On bigger markets or fairs we usually arrive with backpacks and rollis. And buy apiece of fabric here and there. Most of the times even without a specific project in our minds. As a result, one shelf fills after another in our sewing room. Until the point comes, at which we must "reduced" , our fabrics “ie”, sew them away. Yes, I reached at this point. I still have another “problem”. Since I can call a Longarm my own, I rather quilt than sew. So I've decided for a Top, which is sewed a bit quicker. With a jelly roll by Kona Cotton and fabrics by Kaffe Fassett, Collective-Classics Citrus, Free Spirit.

The Kaffe Fassett fabrics I cut to the width of the Jelly Roll and combined with the uni-fabrics of Kona Cotton. Five strips were sewn together throughout.

I shortened the resulting″ x 10″ to squares of 10"x 10".

At this moment, my youngest son showed up and looked over the squares. Comment: “Don´t you think, that all this is something very colorful? You already know, that you can get “eye cancer” can get?” …Hm. No, I did not.

Well, then …less color. Out of white cotton fabric, I cut the same amount of 10″ x 10″ squares.

A white and a colored square were placed right on right and sewn all around with a seam allowance, of 1/4″ and were then cut diagonally using a rotary cutter. 4 HSTs 4 emerged each.

Ordered for the quilt top, it looked like this….

After sewing it together, the top yet received a white border and off it went, to the Longarm.

For the quilting I chose the quilt pattern “the babtistfan” by “Art & Stitch” for Bernina Q-matic.

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In my opinion, the quilt pattern matches the top perfectly.

And by the way, the quilt has a overall size of 66″ x 90″.

And who, in your opinion, who wanted to call his own this quilt? Right! The young man!