My Marcelle Medallion quilt is finally finished! If you follow me on Instagram, then you’ve seen this baby a lot recently. This quilt has been a labor of love, and I am beyond thrilled with the final result. When I started working on this last September, I knew I wanted to stick with a scrappy monochromatic color scheme. I was inspired by this photo on Instagram.
I used Lizzy House’s Constellations fabric line for the bulk of this quilt. I had a fat quarter bundle that I pulled from, plus I used all of the blues and low volume fabrics I had in my stash.
For the quilting I decided to do a spiral from the center out. At first I was very nervous about doing it because the throat space on my machine is quite small, but after extensive Google searching and YouTube video watching, I went for it!
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| Picture via Hawthorne Threads |
I started the center of the spiral with my FMQ foot, and after I got going a little ways, I switched to my walking foot for the remainder of the quilt. I used the edge of my foot for spacing between the lines of quilting. There was never a ton of quilt to shove through the throat space, and once I got closer to the edges I had it down like a pro! I will definitely be spiral quilting more quilts in the future.
The thread I used was Aurifil #4655 – Storm at Sea in 40wt. I have used Aurifil in the past, but this is the first time I used the 40wt and I loved it. It produced a really beautiful stitch and the variegated color worked perfectly with the scrappiness of the quilt.
Because I used the Constellations fabric line, and my awesome friend Kristan noted that my quilting looked like orbits 🙂 I have decided to name this quilt Cosmos. I think it is rather fitting, and I am looking forward to curling up on the couch with my Cosmos quilt while watching Cosmos with Neil deGrasse Tyson.
This wind blown picture ended up being a good thing, because I forgot to take a picture of the back of the quilt. I used Constellations Prism in White. I love that I had to piece the backing but you cant tell because the pattern of the fabric does a great job of camouflaging the seam.
Quilt Stats:
Name: Cosmos
Size: 60.5″ x 60.5″ (before washing)
Fabric: Lizzy House Constellations + blues and low volumes from my stash
Pattern: Marcelle Medallion from Liberty Love by Alexia Abegg
Quilting: Spiral from the center
Completed: March 31st 2014
This is AMAZING!
Wow, fabulous Cosmos!! Love it! Congrats on a beautiful finish and great circle quilting!
Such an amazing quilt – gorgeous! Love the spiral quilting too!!
Beautiful quilt! Love the colours and the design. And the quilting is spectacular. Great choices for every step of the way!
Gorgeous colors and great design. I love the spiral quilting!
It is gorgeous! Blue is my favourite colour, so that totally draws me in. The spiral quilting really suits it.
I love the range of blues you have used on this quilt. It's so fresh looking. Well done.
I love everything about this quilt. It is stunning, and your lights and darks are so well balanced.
Oh it's just gorgeous!! So excited to see it finished!!
Oh I just love it!! The quilting is perfect!
This is a stunning quilt ! congratulations on the finish! 🙂
Such a fabulous finish! Great job on the quilting and so proud of you for jumping in and doing the circular quilting. Awesome! Best, Kate
That is a stunning work of art!! You are a real pro. Glad to hear that the spiral quilting wasn't so bad! It is so beautiful.
Emily at backtothecraft.blogspot.ca
This is so amazing! I love blue in a quilt and the quilting just added to it! Wow!
Can I just say how much I love the quilting on this! It has convinced me I need to try spiral quilting! Love Love Love! Congrats on your finish!
This turned out so wonderfully! Great finish!
I just adore this quilt – it is stunning 🙂
My favorite marcelle medallion quilt I have seen! Just beautiful.