Sunday, January 11, 2015

Cabin Couture: Michael Miller Challenge

I am writing this post from a hotel room in Tennessee. This trip is for work and it is pretty standard archaeology stuff... so I am tired physically and mentally. I thought I would use this hotel room time to catch up on some of my finishes that I have not blogged about. 

Welcome to Cabin Couture. 


I made this baby quilt for the Modern Quilt Guild's Michael Miller fabric challenge. The deal is, you sign up and they send you fat eighths of fabric. Then you make a quilt and you submit it to the judges. 


I am going to be real here, I did not love the pastel colors all together. I could not get inspired. We were supposed to use only cotton couture solids on the front. I loved the hand of the cotton couture. It is so soft. But I could not picture myself spending money on more of these colors I did not love.

So I got together some colors I did love and pulled out the pastels I loved. This combination was inspired by sunrises and warm days. I was trying to think about vintage quilts faded from years of use. 


I was inspired by traditional historic quilts. Simple and eye catching with clean lines. I want to make a really big one now....


The quilting is equally simple. These fabrics are so soft! This is a dreamy baby sized quilt.


It wasn't selected as a challenge finalist so it will go to a baby who will love it very soon, which is the perfect place for a quilt to go. I am pretty excited to hand this one off to a new baby! 

Quilt Stats: 
Quilt Name: Cabin Couture
Size: 40"x 40"
Fabric: Michael Miller Cotton Couture solids
Pattern: Log cabin
Quilting: Figure eight loops with Aurifil thread
Finished: November 2014

5 comments:

  1. I know I say it a lot but I love how much Sewing you get done On the road.

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  2. Beautiful, love the simplicity of the design!

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    1. Thank you Debbie! Me too. I desperately want to make this quilt again... but different.

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  3. Quite beautiful...a very simple but old design with lovely colors and quilting. Some little one will love this!

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