Welcome to my entry to the Spring 2014 Blogger’s Quilt Festival – the Spinnaker Quilt!
This quilt was a work of love, my Christmas present to my dad for Christmas 2013 (over 5 months ago already – can you believe it?)
The inspiration for this quilt was a brightly colored spinnaker on a racing sailboat. My dad actually requested this quilt, and when dad requests something like this, I make it. He wanted it to have yellow, green, red and be bright and cheerful. I like to think I met his requests.
Each of the 238 rectangles in this quilt are 2 inches by 7.5 inches finished size. I used a variety of fabrics and tan linen to allow the eye a place to rest.
The quilting is an allover design of rounded rectangles, with the goal of softening up the hard rectangles while keeping it masculine.
The back is pieced with the linen and anchor fabric to make the backing wide enough to fit the quilt.
The quilt roll shows the grey crosshatch binding.
This quilt measures 68.5 by 53 inches, which is 243 inches around – just barely a large quilt category. A little more in process information can be found in my original entry on this Spinnaker Quilt.
Thanks for visiting from Amy’s Creative Side!
– Heather
Such a nice quilt, beautiful colour choice! And the binding looks amazing too. Your father must be happy and proud!
I eye so many fabric favourites in your quilt. Your colors are wonderful 🙂
It’s a lovely quilt – such a pretty colour palette. Anything with navy gets my vote 🙂
I remember this quilt from when you first posted it, and I still love it! It’s perfect for a sailing fan. The colors are soooo good.
Love your colour and fabric choices. Gorgeous.
Love the quilting! The quilt is gorgeous and I your dad must love it!
Beautiful job!
What a wonderful gift for your dad. The quilt is beautiful.
I love this quilt and think your dad has a great sense of color with those choices 🙂
Amanda
Wow! So beautiful! I love it! Excellent!