Wonderful home for Blue Lagoon Quilt

Blue Lagoon Quilt in it's new home-photo courtesy of Cheryl Collins

Sometimes when you plan out a quilt, picking the fabrics ever so carefully, with a picture in your mind of how it will turn out, you can end up with a bit of a surprise. The fabrics chosen may have an unexpected effect. Such was the case with this quilt, named Blue Lagoon.

I needed to test a new quilt pattern we were finalizing called "Grasshopper" which is on the Modern side and uses only 3 fabrics, with 2 of the 3 being lighter and darker shades of the same color, in this case green, then adding a punch of another contrasting color, the brown.

Section of Blue Lagoon during construction.

I happily chose three from our wonderful studio that's full of fabric thinking the colors would work together beautifully. The aquas, blues, and purples I selected all fit well with each other, so I began to put the quilt top together.

As the quilt was assembled I had some small doubts because the fabrics had busy patterns that didn't seem to be giving me the tone on tone look that the pattern was originally going for. Plainer fabrics with subtle prints would have probably been better I thought-hindsight is usually 20/20!

Blue Lagoon Quilt

The finished quilt was a lovely color scheme with yummy colors reminding me of the Caribbean, but not really showing off the quilt pattern as I had planned. Some of the small squares were less visible, dwarfed by the pattern of the busier fabrics, yet it was still very appealing as a finished quilt top. I quilted it with a fun pantograph, bound it and was very happy with the final result.

Blue Lagoon Quilt in it's new home-photo courtesy of Cheryl Collins.

And so was my good friend Cheryl! She had seen this quilt in various stages during the process of making it, and caressed the fabric lovingly every time. If ever there was someone who would appreciate a quilt, she was the one! So when I saw her last week, I gave her the quilt as a special gift, and she happily accepted it. The next day, I had pictures in my email showing her new home for the Blue Lagoon quilt.

Blue Lagoon Quilt-photo courtesy of
Cheryl Collins

Adding some decorative touches, like curtains, pillows and area rugs, the quilt looks right at home! Couldn't have ended up in a better place! The joy this quilt brought to Cheryl was a wonderful gift to me as well!