Cool Pool quilt & QuiltCon schedule

This was not my year for QuiltCon acceptances, but I do have one quilt hanging in the upcoming show. Cool Pool is one of the patterns featured in QuiltCon Magazine this year, and you can see it in Nashville at the show!

You can also find me at the show; here’s my schedule. I’d love to meet you, so if you see me roaming the show floor, please stop and say hi (and trade pins)!

Thursday 2:30-3:15 pm: “Traditional Block, Modern Quilt: Designing with Negative Space” lecture

Thursday 4-5 pm: Book signing in the Intown Quilters booth (#1117)

Saturday 12-1 pm: Book signing in the Stash Books/C&T Publishing booth (#500)

Okay, back to the quilt! It was inspired by steps leading into a pool, and all you need is three blocks and some big pieces of fabric. The fabrics are Robert Kaufman Kona cottons, which are just about the only brand of solid that had enough shades of teal for this project! In case you’re wondering the aqua shades are Sea Glass, Aqua, Azure, Capri, Breakers, Jade Green, and Ultra Marine, and the blue is Deep Blue.

I quilted it simply, with lines following the contours of the quilt.

I did take the time to match the binding to the piecing. I could have done a facing (in which the edge gets turned to the back of the quilt), but I was just really tired of facings. I’ve done a lot of facings lately, and so I decided to piece the binding and include those instructions in the pattern instead. So, if you have been wondering how to match binding like this, be sure to pick up your copy of the magazine!

Quilt Stats:
Size: 52″ x 64″
Fabrics: Robert Kaufman Kona Cottons (Sea Glass, Aqua, Azure, Capri, Breakers, Jade Green, and Ultra Marine, and Deep Blue)
Batting: Warm & White
Threads: Glide 40-weight (Empire, Aqua, Mermaid, Lagoon, Sea Green, Light Turquoise, Cloud, and Pale Mist)
Quilting Stitches: 89,417 (10 stitches per inch)