Our New Bedroom

I finally finished our new quilt and pillows for our bed.  Before we had a plain tan duvet cover with matching shams.  It was feeling really blah to me, plus our duvet had seen much better days.  I've wanted to make a quilt for our bed, but doing a queen quilt sounded very overwhelming.  I have been looking for ideas for months, then came across this pattern from Oh Fransson.  It was perfect.  I wanted something simple. Her pattern calls for 12 fat quarters and two sheets.  I ended up using 20 fat quarters because I wanted leftover fabric for the pillows as well as a throw quilt I plan to make for me for winter.  I always need more covers than Ryan so I figured I would just make a matching throw for myself.  All the fabrics are from Joel Dewberry's line Modern Meadows. The sashing is Kona white.  I didn't want to use a sheet on top.

Of course there are pillows to match.  I love how the square one turned out.  It's inspired from this pillow.  I really like the effect from the quilting.  It's a bit hard to see in the photo though. 

I did straight line quilting on the shams, though one is quilted horizontal and one vertical.

Finally, no quilt back is complete without some piecing.  The pattern recommended using just a flat sheet, but I couldn't make a quilt without detail on the back.  I did a pieced strip about 12 inches from the top that shows when you fold down the bed.  The brown fabric for the backing is a flat sheet from Target.