Liberty Trip - Finished!

So, I finally finished the Liberty Trip quilt! I drove to Massachusetts to visit my parents this week and finished sewing on the binding. Just so happens, they live on a farm, which made for some fun quilt photography. It's interesting how blogging about the quilts I make is getting me back into photography, which is something I love but had fallen by the wayside over the years. Still working on re-learning settings and how to balance colors, but trying to share the quilts in the best way possible is really motivating me.

Llama wants a quilt!

I used the Quiltville Scrappy Trip method for block construction. My fabric selection consisted of about 18 fat quarters of Liberty Prints, all (I think) from the Bloomsbury or Stile collections. I had 4 FQs that were somewhat more pastel-toned so I used them as the center diagonal in each block. For the others I aimed for a dark/light red/blue quasi-gradient, but really just went with what I felt looked right.

Here's the front! 

For the back I just enlarged the scrappy trip block (and made it as a 5 x 5 rather than 6 x 6 layout), as I wrote about here. The back is all from the Stile collection, I believe.

Here's the back!

For the quilting I machine quilted on my home machine. I marked 4 straight lines using painters tape that intersected at about the center of the off-centered central diamond. I then echoed the triangles using unevenly spaced 'organic' (we know what that means!) straight lines.

Drying on the line after a good wash. 

It was a lot of fun to make, and by far my quickest quilt. I've got ideas for another scrappy trip style quilt, so stay tuned. I've also got some plans for all the left over squares from this liberty trip quilt (hello, matching pillows!)

I like how the Scrappy Trip Pattern helps the Liberty florals blend together. 

Fabric close up! Some of my favorite prints.
I have to remember to USE this quilt, not HOARD it. 

Linking up to TGIFF at Riddle and {Whimsy} this week and Finish it up Friday at Crazy Mom Quilts!