My new one of kind quilt with the Celebration block!

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Nov 20

In the beginning of this year, I promised myself to design 6 sampler blocks to complete the Davis’ Sampler quilts. So far, I have designed 4 blocks, and this Celebration block is my most used block! Recently, I made a 72”x72”, throw size quilt with this block. My celebration block features the bold outline and the customizable center. I have a tutorial post for this block here if you are interested in.

My original main color theme was “Coral and Teal”. But, as you can see the photos, it is more like dark blue with a touch of pink, which I don’t mind. But, I wish I could make one very similar to my pattern image.

Choosing fabrics is always challenging to me, and I ended up with Fat Quarter bundle (Watercolor Blossoms Artisan by Robert Kaufman) that had similar shades/tone I wanted. I liked most of the FQs in the bundle. The one I really liked was the coral pink, and I wanted to use for the borders. But, I just couldn’t find the enough yardage of that fabric, and ended up using dark blue instead.

As you noticed, I added some space between the blocks, because I wanted to throw some fabulous quilting designs!

I started sketching some options using dry erase markers and plexiglass on the quilt top. I found this method is better than using an app. I think it gives more realistic preview of the design.

And, it is loaded! I did my best to make it as square as possible from the beginning to the end, and I could see I did a good job of it. I used wool batting, which is my favorite and Glide 40wt thread.

As I mentioned above, I love wool batting. I love how it shows the quilting details. However, I had hard time when I used wool batting for the first time. Maybe I will write a post about it later. But, in this post I want you to enjoy my quilt!