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Friday, May 17, 2024

Plus

It had been a while since I'd made a Plus quilt, but when I did, I had a nice stack of 5" squares left over, knowing some day, I'd make another. So when I saw Jeni @jenib320 announce her Plus Quilt Along, I figured why not? Jeni has a Modern Plus Quilt Tutorial for a throw-size, though I used her Arithmetic Quilt Pattern to make a baby size to stash for gifting or donating. 



Most, if not all, of the prints were original Cotton + Steel. And actually, my squares were 5", a size not included in Jeni's pattern - her baby-size called for 4.5" squares - so my quilt became slightly larger than her baby-size. Being relatively small, I figured I could squeeze it in among other projects I wanted to do over the quilt along weeks.


As you can imagine, the top sewed up quite quickly. Unfortunately, I realized that I had a little error in the bottom right corner! Luckily it didn't take me too long to make that fix.

For the backing, I used a darling C+S print I'd been stashing for a while - C + S Welsummer Forage in Gray by Kimberly Kight. It didn't take much, but I used just a little of Ruby Star Society Sugar in Neon Pink by Sarah Watts to bring the back up to size. You may be able to barely see that - an inch or so - on the right hand side.

After considering several options, I settled on Aurifil 40wt 1148 [Light Jade] for quilting a grid. I started by quilting along seamlines, then went back and stitched in the middle of those lines of stitches, going completely by eye. For batting, I'm pretty sure I used Quilter's Dream Request, since I had it on hand. At any rate, the quilting and batting resulted in a very soft and drapey quilt.

Bound with a jade C+S Sprinkle, the quilt finished at 42" x 55". The coloring on the sweet label from sarahHEARTS just had to be included on this quilt, along with my standard label.

So that was a fun finish with sweet fabrics. With gifting Snippets to my daughter this week, the stole to my son, and now this finish.... well, it's been good to cross a few projects off the list!



6 comments:

  1. Congratulations on your finish! Yours has kind of an eye spy flavor, fun to look at.

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  2. Love this so much! I too have the pattern, but have not made it yet. Now I need to pull it out and gather some fabrics for it.

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    1. Oh fun. It's a quick and easy one. Enjoy making yours!

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  3. You are definitely on the plus side for finishes this week, and what a great way to top it off with this cute quilt. Love the labels, and I'm glad that little oops was a quick fix!

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  4. Good catch on the lower right hand corner. I'm at a point where I really like to take a photograph of a quilt top before I start quilting - that's how I often catch those oopsies. The grid quilting compliments the piecing really nicely. Looks like it was fun to make!

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  5. Plus quilts are one of those design ideas that can be executed in so many ways -- they all add up, LOL. Your fabric choices are great. I like your little labels!

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