Started back in January of this year, my Effervescence quilt is done!
Following along with Yvonne @quiltingjetgirl and the Effervescence Quilt Along, I found it easy to keep up, and once my quilt top was done, I was anxious to jump right in on making a pieced quilt back.
Honestly, I put more into it than I originally expected, but I'm totally fine with that. Besides the scraps I started with, I kept making more scraps while piecing the back, so I tried really hard to incorporate those too. In fact, when I first thought I was done with the back, I noticed two HSTs hanging out on the design wall that I'd forgotten about, and yes I took the time (just 20 minutes!) to get my seam ripper out and get those final HSTs pieced in. Just that bit gave me the energy I needed to trim threads, repress the back and front, and get that thing basted!
As for a quilting design, I settled on using Jacquie Gering's "Fancy Straight Line" from her WALK book, which I've used many times with great result. With so many vertical lines, as well as angles in Effervescence, I thought they would look good together. Thread was a little more difficult choice. I knew I didn't want to color-match throughout the quilt, so I finally was inspired by the lime-ish Kona Sprout used through the middle of quilt, and chose Aurifil 50wt 7001 [Neon Yellow].
For binding, I chose four Kona solids - Pickle, Sprout, Caribbean, and Tangerine.
Finished, the quilt measured 56" x 72" and I feel such a sense of accomplishment having it finally done. Plus I just really really like it!
