Spiced Chai quilt

I guess it's a good sign that I want to make a whole bunch of quilts from my own book, right? Here's another recent finish—my version of Katie's Spiced Chai quilt from Vintage Quilt Revival.

This might be my favorite quilt in Vintage Quilt Revival. It's simple, it's quick and fun to make, and I think it should be a poster quilt for modern-traditionalism, because it's got it all going on. A beautiful traditional block, plus so much of what I love about modern quilts—asymmetry, unexpected block flips and rotations, strategic color placement that emphasizes the design, use of negative space. The list goes on.

So I knew I needed my own Spiced Chai. And this was one of those rare instances where I didn't feel the need to make a lot of design tweaks, because Katie's quilt is kind of perfect just the way it is.

The colors in my quilt are similar to those in Katie's version, just a little more subdued. I even used Katie's quilting methods—except that I swapped them by putting the squiggly lines into the leaves, while the swirlies were the background. The only significant change I made was to use woodgrain prints instead of solids for the neutral blocks. Because I do love me some woodgrains. (These are from Erin Michaels' Lush Uptown line.)

And look: more swirly quilting! After stubbornly refusing to do any FMQ other than stippling for about three years, I'm kinda proud of myself for branching out recently, can you tell? Remember what I said in my last post about burying knots? This quilt totally helped me get over my fear of knots. All the more reason to love it.