Wonderwall curved quilt by Charm About You featured in Love Patchwork and Quilting

It should come as no surprise that I get very excited about fabric. I've been sharing what I buy, stitch and make here for over seven years. The colours, prints, the way it handles, the endless combinations... fabric brings me joy. 

The opportunity to get to chose and work with fabric is truly something special. I SQUEALED a lot when these beauties I picked arrived from Freespirit. Vibrant, rich, bright, happy colours of Designer Essentials Solids:

Freespirit Designer Essential Solids fabric

top row: Cosmo, Melon, Pomegranate, Gold, Tropical
bottom row: Serpent, Clearwater, Julep, Citrine

And I kept on SQUEALING because this was also in the box...

Conservatory fabric by Anna Maria Horner, Bookhou and Monika Forsberg

I selected fabrics from Anna Maria's Conservatory Chapter one fabric range. The five prints on the left are from English Summer by Anna Maria Horner, the three in the middle are from Savernake Road by Monika Forsberg and the five on the right are from Vestige by Bookhou. While they are three separate collections they do play well together and I like the mix of styles, it keeps things interesting!

This quilt was a sample for Love Patchwork & Quilting, the pattern is by Laura Pritchard. A sort of Rob Peter to Pay Paul design, that uses quilt as you go and is similarly tactile to a Cathedral Windows pattern. So I got to work, cutting and more cutting until I had a stack of round sandwiches...

stack of circles ready for quilting

Then sewed, sewed, sewed to make what can only be described as a bit of a mess! My husband was very bemused.

Wonderwall curved quilt by Charm About You with Conservatory fabrics, featured in Love Patchwork and Quilting

Though at this point the back of the quilt was looking AWESOME! Very Elmer the elephant. The solid colours look so pretty and I really like all the curves along the edges of the quilt.

Wonderwall curved quilt by Charm About You with Freespirit solid fabrics featured in Love Patchwork and Quilting

The next step is stitching down the 'petals', topstitching and quilting simultaneously, and it's here that you really see the quilt taking shape. I quilted this in the same way as an orange peel, going vertically in S shaped lines and then horizontally with the same S lines.

Wonderwall curved quilt by Charm About You featured in Love Patchwork and Quilting

Wonderwall curved quilt by Charm About You featured in Love Patchwork and Quilting

I used Aurifil 50wt for sewing the circular sandwiches and piecing them together, and then 40wt for the quilting - both in shade #2930. This shade could easily be overlooked (some may deem it too brown) but it's a beautiful golden toast shade that blends in and worked perfectly with all the colours I used in the quilt.

quilt by Charm About You using Aurifil thread

This is a weighty quilt because of all the layers and finishes at 72", with those whimsical curvy edges all the way round.

Wonderwall curved quilt by Charm About You featured in Love Patchwork and Quilting

You can get Laura's pattern and see more pictures of my quilt in Issue 70 of Love Patchwork & Quilting, out now!


Randomly last night I realised my (now 6 year old!!!) daughter knows all the words to Wonderwall and after the cutest rendition, she told me that I'm her Wonderwall ♡♡♡