March 10th, 2009
I never did post the pictures of my oatmeal quilt when it was finished. A recent commenter said she came here looking for inspiration on a neutral coloured quilt, so I thought, I should show how mine ended up!
Here is the quilt as a whole. I didn’t have a plan for the blocks – I had nine colours in white, beige and yellow and made nineblocks using one of each colour in a random assortment, sewing the main top as I went. It came out pretty well balanced as a result and it is indeed soothing and oatmealy. I love it:
Here is a corner showing the binding fabric, which is the same as the backing fabric:
And here is the backing. My mitering isn’t so good and it’s a little wrinkly but I do love the fabric:
The batting was made of bamboo, which I thought was very cool because it’s renewable and different from the ever-present poly and cotton fills. The feel of the bamboo batting is wonderfully soft but so light that the weight of the cottons stiffens it up and it’s not a very drapey blanket. And as it turned out, it is in fact literally cool – this blanket is not warm in the slightest unless you double it up. My next quilt will have a much warmer batting, probably cotton.
Anywhere, there you have it! The oatmeal quilt!
ahh! there she is! thanks for sharing the details. I’ll be getting back onto my neutrals quilt (which may end up not-so-neutrally after all) soon….
Excellent. I look forward to your pictures.
I think I should do some in progress shots too, to give a sense of how it all comes together. And to let other qiulters point out to me when I do things the slow or bad way… I read one book and am otherwise self taught so that probably explains why it takes me so long to finish any projects!