quilts using toile fabrics?
 

I have had six yards of this fabric for many years. I have never been able to make myself cut it or seen a pattern that is up to it's luxurious quality :) If you've made a toile quilt would you share an image? An online search just returns solid commercial quilts, at least for me. Thanks!

I have used pieces of toile in a crazy quilt but only smaller pieces here and there. They do make a difference in the blocks and can set a blocks tone with beauty. I tried to a take a picture but the picture did not come out as I wanted it to and does not show the toile well. I am going to try and take another picture and post it here in a bit.

Sorry no pics here .....

I saw a gorgeous toile quilt done a few years ago, where the "picture" areas were fussy cut out then snowballed and framed up with other fabrics. Lots of possibilities as to what sort of a pattern you work with ... stars, trellis, etc. For my spin off I used the Warm Wishes pattern.

No pics here either, but I used sort of a blue storybook toile as QuiltE mentioned, snowball the picture with alternate blocks or I pieced squares into sashing with that one. I love snowballs for show casing large prints.

How about a Snowball and Nine-Patch? The large area of the snowball would show your fabric well and you could coordinate the 9P blocks to your focus fabric.

ETA: I should have read the other comments before I posted. I guess great minds really do think alike!

Ohhhhh I have a pattern somewhere, let me see if I can find it. I never made it because I couldn't find a suitable toile, lol.

Well a bit of a false alarm, I'm afraid. I found the pattern, but it doesn't use that much toile, unfortunately. The website listed on the back of the pattern is also gone. I suppose you could still make the pattern and use the toile for the back of the quilt (that's what I like to do any time I find a fabric I simply can't cut), but you make 2-sided quilts, and I don't think you do much applique?

Here's the pattern:

How about something like this? It's simple and lets the focus rest on the toile print.
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/103231016437978581/

Here is one that is very pretty with instructions https://susies-scraps.com/2015/05/26...h-and-pattern/ and here are some ideas using star blocks https://clmtquilter.blogspot.com/p/s...-bbs-2015.html I love toiles and have a few that I have not used yet. I did use a beautiful blue one and made valances for my SIL and she loves them. Good Luck

Never bought any toile because it's been too expensive here, but I could envision as background for a DWR. with matching color rings.

KalamaQuilts your fabric is beautiful. I think it would look wonderful in the quilt that Peckish showed the pattern for. I too don’t have any pictures of quilts I’ve made using toile but have done it both as a whole fabric for the back and in the quilt in a pattern similar to the one Peckish referred you to. Good luck with your decision and future quilt.

This gorgeous quilt pattern is in the book Tributes and Treasures by Paula Barnes and Mary Ellen Robinson. It is called Plantation. It uses 3.5 yards of toile, and the toile squares are 9.5" so the pattern shows. I've always wanted to make it, but I've never found the toile fabric.

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I saved Photo of one from 2014. I believe it was posted on here. Black and white toile. Would be perfect for you. Having a hard time posting photo. I’ll try.

It was “Storm at Sea in Black and White Toille“ by Marian E 2012. Do a search here and it should come up.

Here is the post Maureen was referring to. It's a great quilt.

https://www.quiltingboard.com/pictur...s-t202637.html

I made “Holiday Elegance” from McCalls 2012 magazine using Toile. It was really pretty and is now in Texas with my granddaughter. I absolutely love Toile and use it a lot in my home just like my grandmother did. ( shower curtain in guest bath, curtain in my laundry room and my bedroom drapes and bed skirt). I have also backed a few quilts with Toile..the problem there is deciding which side is up!

Peggy, applique was my passion until I started losing my eyesight. I can still pet and appreciate that work :) but no I don't do it anymore.
Some wonderful ideas here, thank you all. I've been pondering that fabric, and my proclivities since I put the post up.
#1 problem, I love small pieces. 1.5" is my go to size, followed by 2", with 2.5" coming in a distant third. This toile cut to feature the motifs would probably have 8.5" or 9" blocks. Gasp.
#2 problem is I quit buying fabric in 2001 and never did buy much yardage, so coordinated elegant is probably not in my wheelhouse. Green scraps is what I have to draw on here. Yellow scraps would be harsh I think. Pink? I like that idea, but my pink stack is about 6" high, that would be enough for a doll quilt :)

I would appreciate continuing feedback, I'm sure I'm not the only one here with toile tucked away as too good to use. Life is short and then we die...use the fabric!
thinking about applique though..here is my last one, in 30's all hand done while away from home caring for my father in law. (quilting was done by Becky, a member here at the time) The Boston Commons was finished during that time, but still awaits the perfect reverse side.

I dearly love a pretty toile! One idea is to use the toile as an alternate on point block and border, as below:

https://www.pinterest.com/pin/2674081003803451/

I saved a picture long ago of a simple pattern that I think would be beautiful in toile. I don't have a link, but I can try to describe it: it has very large squares in a square (I would guess at least 12 in.), with the inner, on-point square being the toile, and the surrounding triangles being a blender in the toile color. Then there is a sashing comprised of rectangles of the toile surrounded by thinner strips of cream on either side, along with cornerstones of the toile and cream.

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What gorgeous quilts, KalamaQ!

I would find green and white closely matching solid fabric to make a top and use the toile for the backing. I would not cut the toile up for blocks.

Oh I love toile as well. The All Iowa Shop Hop fabric has a feature fabric of toile...yes I bought either 3 or 4 yards of it. https://store.brooklynfabric.com/win...nt=Catch%20All

One of the problems with cutting toile on point will create a quarter turn of the design or cutting bias edges. How anal do I want to be?https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/eek.png

Thanks for starting the thread, kalama

Holiday Elegance

Gasp! What a beauty!

I just made two for my donation quilts. It has brown as print I just cut it in 7-1/2" squares and alternated with brown squares. I had the scenes going up, all in the same direction.

I have a toile confession to make. A few years ago French General had a beautiful line of fabric called Pom Pom de Paris, featuring a lovely toile in several colorways. I made an impromptu decision to use the toile (in the prettiest colorway) as my block centers in a quilt. The fabric was out of print and I only had a fat quarter, and only one on-line store overseas had any left; it was expensive (plus the shipping) and so I only bought 1/2 metre. When it came time to cut my squares, I didn't have enough fabric to fussy cut them all, so I ended up with the macabre effect of having headless torsos or dangling legs in some of the squares! I will never be able to gift this quilt, lol. However, it was not the only design flaw, as I was supposed to have a gradient of color and messed that up, as well.

I think that is why the yardage sits in the closet Joesmom, dismemberment is painful and there are lots of animals in mine.
lvstoquilt, that red and white is beautiful.
OKSewglad, When I did the little brown bird quilt I was aghast to find Margaret Docherty had cut her background on the bias, her point being it then matched the grain on the rest of the blocks. It was an AQS grand winner. Starch starch starch is what I learned in doing my dear jane, those side triangles!! :) I spent about three weeks working up the courage to cut them, but once starched well they behaved well.

Kalama, that still gives me the shivers! And I do like to starch, too!

This is how little I know. When I was picking fabric for this quilt, "Green With Envy" I saw that the pattern for much of it was "toile." I had no idea what that meant, but only that I liked the look. Turns out the second strip from the top in the rail fence as well as the blocks between the churn dash and the light background in the center and in the churn dash are all in the toile pattern for the "Evergreen" fabric line. I definitely like it, and so far the blocks are really looking nice. Guess I got lucky.

pretty selection Rob, I think I see a dismembered snail working across a seam :)

Joesmom and Kalama, I understand about the dismemberment issues. My own thing is "no dead fish" any time I use fish fabric there is a direction and no fish float....

Just as a caution, One Block Wonder type with animal fabrics almost always have this issue with rear ends. I have a friend who embraced the concept and made two quilts from horse fabric, one of which had the horse faces for a granddaughter I think, and the other made of the other ends for her husband as a couch blanket. He appreciated the joke, but not everyone would!

I like using the toile as backing Thats probably not what you are thinking about, but it really makes the back nice

Oops. Didn't see that. Will have to be more careful on the remaining blocks. Just told the boss and she promised to be more careful in the future. https://cdn.quiltingboard.com/images/smilies/smile.png

Here's mine. It was a free pattern I found online by Darlene Zimmerman.

that is beautiful ekuw. I always want to pet your bird. We got our first egg today from our new Easter Egger chickens, I So Excited ;) The girls are sooo soft.

Lovely ekuw.

Thanks! It was relatively easy, which is nice too! My bird is wild so I have not petted her either LOL. Jealous you have chickens and fresh eggs :-)