I am excited to make Rainbow Rotary my first entry into The Blogger’s Quilt Festival. This was my first rainbow quilt, but I didn’t make it too easy- There are 72 different fabrics creating the circle of color!
Rainbow Rotary
Rainbow Rotary is a re-interpretation of a traditional Courthouse Steps block that I turned into a wedge. Eight wedges combine to form this circle of color. If you would like to see more on the development of this design, please check out the original Rainbow Rotary post. In this detail photo you can see some of the block construction as well as the quilting detail.
Each of the 72 sections of color has a single line of echo quilting in a coordinating thread. The white sections of each wedge are quilted using a thread color which matches the dominant color of the wedge. Nine different threads were used to quilt this project.
One of the most exciting aspects of using so many different threads is that the back of the quilt has a subtle thread rainbow on the solid white backing fabric
This quilt will be in the ROYGBIV category of the Blogger’s Quilt Festival. The Festival is currently open for entries and nominations for viewer’s choice. Please stop by to see all of the lovely quilts that have been entered, and come back between May 22-29 to vote for your favorites in every category!
Quilt Stats
Title: Rainbow Rotary
Size: 18.5″x18.5″
Techniques: Foundation paper piecing
Quilting: Echo Quilting within each area of the quilt using a walking foot on a Bernina 1008
Fabrics: 74 different fabrics: 72 colors from scrap and stash, Kona cotton in whiter for background and backing, Lotta Jansdotter stripe for binding
Batting: Warm and White
Thread: Pieced using white Gutermann Mara 100. Quilted with Connecting Threads cotton Essentials quilting thread in Red, Grape Juice, Peridot, Persian Blue, Persimmon, and Sangria as well as yellow, teal, and green in Gutermann Mara 100.
Binding: Striped fabric, cut on the bias in 2″ wide strips, machined stitched to the front of the quilt, hand stitched to the back.
Up Next: I am currently writing a pattern for this quilt!
If you like this quilt, you may want to take a look at Mini Quilt Mania– I am making a mini quilt a week for 2015!
16 Comments
Cynthia Brunz
May 16, 2015 at 11:15 amWonderful seeing this quilt again. Best of luck in the Festival!
Yvonne @ Quilting Jetgirl
May 16, 2015 at 11:30 amThis is a perfect entry for the ROYGBIV category! I do love how you put so much attention into details on this quilt, like the use of colored thread for the quilting. It really helps the quilt have a rainbow glow.
What comes next?
May 16, 2015 at 10:05 pmgreat quilt! Love the design!
Beth @ Cooking Up Quilts
May 17, 2015 at 7:16 amWow Cassandra! First, all those fabrics and second, the quilting is fab-u-lous!! How did you ever quilt those straight lines so straight? (Straight lines are sometimes a struggle for me…) This is super cool quilt.
Renee
May 17, 2015 at 10:14 pmWow awesome fabric/color placement! Looks awesome. And I love the quilting you chose!
Kamila@ Work-With-Patches
May 18, 2015 at 5:24 amWhat a great idea for a beautiful miniquilt!!! I love your design, rainbow colors and I love your quilt 🙂 Great job!
Greetings from Poland
Kamila
PennyDog
May 18, 2015 at 5:27 amI’ve voted for this in Viewer’s Choice too 🙂
Pam
May 18, 2015 at 6:39 amLove your quilt. The design is fantastic.
Jennifer
May 18, 2015 at 11:40 amI remember seeing this on IG, it’s one of my favorites! So fabulous!
Elizabeth Eastmond
May 22, 2015 at 10:57 pmI love your little quilt! I love the angles, the way you arrayed your rainbows, and that amazing quilting! Well done!
Sylvia Anderson
May 23, 2015 at 6:46 pmI love, love, love this quilt and am excited to know that you are writing a pattern for it. Could you please notify me when it is available? It is so bright and colorful and brings a smile to my face. Hope you win!!!!
Sally
May 26, 2015 at 10:30 amThis is a stunning little quilt. I love how you quilted it, too.
Sarah
May 27, 2015 at 5:30 pmWow! This is absolutely beautiful. I’m definitely interested in the pattern when you’re done with it.
Grazyna
May 28, 2015 at 11:21 amFantastic rainbow quilt!!! Fantastic!!!
Carrie
June 3, 2015 at 6:14 pmI love the quilting on this guy! So fun changing the thread color for each section and the design is just beautiful.
Brianna Robertson
June 3, 2015 at 8:46 pmThis quilt is so striking! I just love that quilting. I’ve thought about doing that sort of spiral quilting before but wasn’t sure how it would look. This looks great! That must have been a lot of threads to bury too.