Janan

My daughter is getting married and because we have some Finnish blood in us, I thought it would be fun to make her a quilt made of Finnish fabric for a wedding gift. I purchased some Marimekko fabric scraps and will do a scrappy disappearing four patch quilt. It will be fun (and stressful) to cut the fabric in ways to show off the best of the prints! (I attached a picture of my fabric, my first block, and my inspiration quilt I got off Pinterest.)

I just washed the fabric because the Marimekko site recommended pre-washing and I wanted to know what I was getting myself into. The fabric wrinkled some, but not horribly, thank goodness. Should I buy some starch or sizing? The cotton is a little heavier than most quilt cottons I've sewn with.

I plan on getting brave with my FMQ skills. I want to do one design in the printed squares and another in the white squares. So far, I've only done a meandering stitch on the border of my grandaughter's quilt and discovered it was quite fun! For the white squares, I would like to use a template of some kind so I can do something similar to the inspiration quilt.

Then to plan the quilt backing!! Yikes!


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M.Elizabeth

Your fabrics are lovely, and I like the pattern you have chosen.

Janan

Thank you!

QUILTNMO

Beautiful quilt!!!

jjs56

I love the fabrics you've chosen. Can't wait to see the finished quilt!

Mimi Sews

I love the fabrics you chose! Your quilt will be lovely. I use Mary Ellen's Best Press on my quilt fabric. I like it better than starch. You can buy it at JoAnns.

meyert

I love the. D4P pattern and your fabrics will look great in that pattern. Show us pictures when you are done

needles3thread

ditto - what the others said.

joe'smom

Wonderful fabrics! I also use Best Press and highly recommend it for getting out wrinkles.

blahel

love your fabric choices..maybe its because i too have finish blood running in my veins!