Blogger's Quilt Festival: Twist of Lime

Hello to everyone visiting from the Blogger's Quilt Festival! I'm Alison and I'm a PhD candidate in chemistry by day, and a fabric addict 24-7. I started sewing when I was in elementary school and quilting has become my go-to "therapy" since I started grad school in 2010.

While this quilt has been finished for a month or so, I couldn't resist sharing it again because I love it so much. The color choices are a little bit out of my normal "box" and I was nervous to go in such a bold direction, but I couldn't be happier!

I collected lime green, black, and white fabrics for almost a year and a half before I started cutting for this project because I had such a hard time finding a pattern that I liked. The pattern for this one is from the March 2012 Michigan-Ohio Shop Hop quilt designed by The Quilt Patch in Tecumseh, Michigan.

All of my fabrics are prints: black on white, white on black, green with black and white. My favorite print in this quilt is the green trees fabric from the City Centre Line by Robert Kaufman. While the blocks are simple to put together, the contrast of the alternating courthouse steps and star blocks ends up so beautiful!

I also put together my first pieced and artsy back for this quilt due to the plethora of fabric still left from this project.

Thank you so much for visiting and don't forget to go check out all of the other quilts entered in the Blogger's Quilt Festival!

Update 11/5/12: Thank you to everyone for nominating me in the "Bed Quilt" category! I was so honored surprised to make it into the top 5! Go here to vote for the finalists!

Quilt Stats
Approximately 72 by 84 inches (twin)
Special Techniques: strip piecing, stack-cut-switch piecing for stars, pieced backing
Quilted: Professional
Pattern: By The Quilt Patch in Tecumseh, Michigan (MI-OH March shop hop quilt pattern)
Categories: Bed Quilt, Professionally Quilted
Entry #164

Finished Twist Of Lime

I'm so excited to show this off!

Stats:
Size: Twin
Pattern: MI-OH shop hop quilt March 2012 designed by The Quilt Patch
Fabrics: Mostly scrappy
More posts: blocks, more blocks, layout, finished top, pieced back, binding

(Huge apologies for the sad pictures, too much rain and dreary lately!)

My artsy pieced back (my first!)

Lots of stripey binding:

Thanks for visiting and check out what everyone else is finishing up this week at Crazy Mom Quilts and Confessions of a Fabric Addict!

PS. I'm hosting a swap for orphaned jelly roll strips and any other 2.5 inch strips! The Flickr group is here!

WIP Wednesday: In a Bind

I'm finally catching up on my binding projects. My mom brought my Twist of Lime quilt this past weekend because the machine quilting got finished, so now just the binding stands between me and crossing this one off the WIP list.

My binding is from the Fantasia collection. A perfect find for this project. 

I got the binding all sewed on Monday night and the edges all trimmed up to start hand stitching.

So now I'm off to hand stitch until I round all of the corners.

Linking up with Freshly Pieced today!