Ocean Breeze Patchwork Quilt 1

This quilt pattern caught my eye a year ago and with a little patience and perseverance is now my favourite quilt. I knew I wanted to make a quilt with the appearance of a drift of colours and not with traditional perfect colour symmetry. I’m also not great at planning and buying fabric to the pattern. I tend to buy fabric here and there and hope there is roughly enough to finish to the size that I eventually decide to make.

I used my sizzix cutting machine to cut all the pieces and it saved such a lot of time and of course the pieces were all perfectly cut which made accurate sewing together much easier.

This is the blocks all laid out ready to sew together. It took about 2.5 hours to lay all this out and I was relieved that we didn’t have any visits from dogs or grandchildren before I got them all stacked up in rows! To make sure that I didn’t get mixed up with the layout I stitched all the rows together and then finished it off several weeks later when I had a bit more time.

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All the blocks laid out ready to sew together.

This quilt actually grew a bit bigger and the plain fabrics were padded out with some prints, which of course was according to the original plan. Possibly. Anyway, with a bit of sewing here and there in between house moving, barn converting, starting a new job and having 2 new grandchildren I finally have it finished. I think the pandemic helped with this since apart from all the necessary stuff of life, there was a lot more time for sewing. Oh, and I also have the impetus that comes with having a new sewing machine! I have been very fortunate in being able to upgrade my steady Janome machine with a shiny new all singing all dancing Bernina 570QE machine. I love my new sewing machine……it has so many wonderful features and stitches just perfectly.

Further pictures to follow!