Tea Time

 

Several years ago, I bought my daughter this quilt kit as a gift. But it sat unused for the intervening years (like mother, like daughter). Earlier this year, when we were having a sew time together at my place, she did the strip cutting of the fabrics, but then got sidetracked by a garment sewing project (also not yet finished) and didn't get back to this quilt. I bought minky for the backing during our local quilt shop's close-out sale, and more recently offered to finish it for her for Christmas. After all, it was still at my place, and I have enough UFOs of my own, without having hers here as well. And so, that's what I've done. 
If you look back over my blog for the High Tea quilt, you will find that I made a nearly identical quilt previously.

The only differences are that High Tea had a teapot fabric for the focus fabric, whereas this one has teacups, and High Tea has a regular quilting cotton backing, and Tea Time has minky.

I also used a different pantograph for the quilting, Coffee Break for High Tea and High Tea for Tea Time. I didn't own the High Tea pantograph when I made the High Tea quilt, otherwise, I likely would have used it. 

I'm not going to bother repeating myself, so if you want to know my thoughts on this quilt kit, just read my post on High Tea. There you will also find that I used the same trellis setting pattern for Where the Charming Roses Bloom, only I used the square design instead of rectangular. 

The nice thing about this quilt design is that it's actually a setting design - in other words, it provides a setting for either focus fabrics or blocks. And since I like the aesthetics of blocks set on point, I decided to use this setting for a queen sized quilt, starting with the blocks I made in a sew-along back in 2021. 

Hopefully, some day, I will get it finished for my own bed. The original sew-along only made 8 - 12" blocks, and for this quilt top, I need 17, plus 14 - 6" blocks. My choice was to make the most challenging 12" blocks I could find in Brackman's Encyclopedia of Pieced Quilt Patterns. So, it's been slow going, especially when other projects keep interrupting. And then I'll have to tackle the 6" blocks...