Print Gallery Quilt

I love great picture frame arrangements for a large wall space such as these.  As I was glancing through framing ideas one day I realized these would make a fabulous quilt with large scale prints.  Within a day the sketch for this quilt was born.

I love these prints from the Heirloom line by Joel Dewberry.  The problem was I had a hard time deciding what to do with them because you lose so much by cutting them up.  This quilt preserves the prints.  I added the borders to frame the arrangement.  The sashing is Kona bone which has become a new favorite.  The final quilt size is 80"x80".  The blocks are all standard photo print/frame sizes-- 5"x7", 8" x 10", 12" x12" and 11" x 14". 

After designing the quilt in Photoshop, I started cutting.  It wasn't until I was actually laying the quilt out on my design wall, that I realized this wasn't going to be super easy to piece together.  I started to get worried.  I had to piece this in large sections and then sew about six 90-degree corners (which, by the way, are easier than piecing 60-degree angles with hexagons) to piece everything together.  Sometimes I just jump full-on into a project without actually thinking of how it would all come together.  Luckily, it worked out just fine.

The back is super simple.  I used several colors from the Art Gallery Pure Elements line.

I used grey thread and quilted it on my machine--start to finish-- at our November sewing Saturday.  I also spray basted this guy, which is my new favorite as well.  

This was a Christmas gift for my sister and her hubs.

 

While she was opening the quilt, her hubs was showing Little Dude the wonders of cell phones.  

I think he wants one of his own.