A few years ago, my local quilt shop, Quilters Haven, ran a monthly quilt class called "Stash Pot Pie" - the idea was to make a quilt using up your stash - (leaving space in your cupboards for MORE fabric hehe!!) - anyway, I raided my stash and produced a pile of green batiks - I know, I know - what a surprise! Fancy that! A stash of my favourite fabrics - batiks - in my favourite colour - green!! I bet my friend Eva would have a shock!! The name of this particular pattern is called "Pie Chart" - and I can I remember that when Pam taught this class her sample was made with some beautiful batiks too......
.....I love the variety of greens in this quilt. Batiks can be tricky to sew with, so I always use Schmetz Microtex needles which are really sharp and don't pluck the fabric. Anyway, this was one of the Stash Pot Pie quilt tops that I made that year, and like so many others, it was folded up, put in a box and forgotten about. ....
.....I had shown it to Janette a few weeks ago, and I decided that it needed a border before she quilted it, so I chose a grey batik, using 3½" strips of a similar colour as the background for the blocks (you have no idea how long this fabric has been hiding in my cupboards!!)....
.....then it was off to Janette to be turned into something beautiful. We decided use a dark silver thread that blended beautifully against both the green and grey batiks. I knew exactly which type of quilting design I wanted for this one - something feathery that would resemble fronds and ferns - so we chose this one, called Plumage.....
.....here I am busy machine-sewing the binding into place - as you can see, yet more batik!! I cut 2½" strips of batik for a double fold binding. Luckily I didn't have to buy anymore fabric for the binding as I another ½m of this green batik hiding in my fabric box, and I'd used the same fabric in the quilt - result!....
.....and finally the binding was hand sewn to the back of the quilt - I chose this beautiful extra wide fabric in a cream tonal print for the backing, (supplied by Janette) and then finished it by adding one of my labels.....
.....and here it is spread out on my bed - so you can see the full effect. This quilt measures 65½" square and easily covers a double bed. I am thrilled with it - thank you so much Janette, for yet again for making one of my quilts look so fabulous!! Whatever would I do without you! I made several quilt tops during these classes using "Stash Pot Pie" patterns, so look out for more blog posts about them when I finally get them quilted too!
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