I bought the pattern for this quilt at the Grand Opening of Deb’s fabric shop – probably two years ago! She was selling the pattern (with fabric) as a kit but I didn’t like any of the colours so I was able to pick my own fabrics. I made the quilt a bit larger than was called for by adding extra borders.

For a long time this was to be my Sashiko quilt because I wanted to quilt it using sashiko patterns meant for machine quilting. When I got down to the quilting though the patterns were just too small to use within the blocks so I had to change plans.

I need to remind myself that quilting on a heavily patterned fabric doesn’t show. I spent almost three days mapping out lines, stitching them and then tying in the ends only to realize that it really doesn’t show unless you are looking at it close up. I was smarter for the rest of the quilting and just did a meander.

I didn’t think the border fabric worked well with the backing fabric so I used a two colour binding.