Here it is. Finished. I just hand-stitched the hidden binding and the label in place.
Skyline #1
I’m quite pleased with how this piece turned out. Final dimensions: 48″ x 64″ – not a bad size for a throw quilt and still reasonable to be hung on a wall should anyone be interested.
I used three different colours of variegated Aurifil (50wt) to quilt the project – on top a darkish purple (with mauve) in the purple corner, a medium turquoise (with light turquoise) in the lighter sections, and a red blend in the peach sections. You really have to look hard to see the differences but it was necessary – a occasional dark purple segment in the turquoise or peach sections would have stuck out; same with a turquoise or red in the dark purple on the bottom right. I used a green variegated thread for the back throughout. That worked well.
I was fortunate, that when I trimmed the backing/batting off, I had enough backing fabric from the four sides that I was able to use the offcuts to bind the quilt. So the hidden binding matches the quilt back!
Skyline #1 – Back
This is the third quilt I’ve used a hidden binding on. I elected to do that here because I felt a regular binding would “frame” the quilt top and I wanted it to be open, without limits. Same with the back, the hidden binding brings the elements to the quilt edge nicely.
Now on to the second in this series.
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I like the colors and concept of this quilt. And I agree that facing was the best choice of edge finish.
This is really lovely!
Thanks. You’ll have to come and see it in person – maybe next week?
I love the back of it — the strip is really set off by the other fabric. The front is nicely done with the colour blocking. Well done. Now I need to go look up invisible binding.
Did you notice the strips of navy grunge are of different widths? The strip, itself, I decided to use without cutting it up – I cut 9″ from one edge of one of the “Skyline” panels I have on hand and used it as it was. In that narrow bit it’s less about “buildings” and more about a riot of colour which is what I want from the fabric.
I can’t say in the picture that I did notice they were different widths. In the narrow strip is where I see the buildings and the front is the riot of colour. Aren’t our eyes and perceptions funny?
I was definitely aiming for a riot of colour on the front! I am about to start version #2 – using wedge strips – it’ll be interesting to see what happens to the colour when I do that.
Maybe I should have put the buildings upside down! Didn’t think of that. I’ll try it in the next one.
Here’s a link to how I do a hidden binding on a wall art piece: https://jmn111.files.wordpress.com/2020/01/hidden-binding-2.pdf
On a quilt I actually mitre the binding corners on the binding – I do that by leaving the ends of each strip open, construct the mitre, then finish by stitching down the two sides ends of the corner. It’s too difficult to do on a wall art piece because the project is too small to fiddle the mitre.