Low Volume Quilts are my Specialty

(Please note that affiliate links have been included in this post.)

It’s finished!

This one was sent off early last week to a sweet customer. I don’t take many custom orders, but someone asked at the right time. I was ready for a new project but couldn’t justify starting something new for myself.

This cuddly bundle of soft blues and grays with bits of yellow and pink was inspired by a quilt I made long ago. Over three years ago, I finished up another low volume quilt with the same pattern. The original one I made was HUGE. It’s the largest quilt I’d ever made and still sits on our bed in our master bedroom.

While this quilt sits inside a relatively small circle of colors, I thoroughly enjoyed the freedom of multiple shades of colors. You’ll find every shade of white in this quilt…off white, creamy white, and bright white. There is baby blue and aqua and teal and blue-green. You’ll also find a bit of mustard yellow and a bit of bright yellow. The quilt lended itself well to a scrappy look despite my restriction on low saturated color.

I like how it turned out.

If you’ve been following along here much, you’ll see almost all my early quilts were low volume quilts. I was not drawn to bright and bold colors. Some of the first quilts I ever finished were my triangle quilt and basic patchwork quilt.

I also finished a very low volume half square triangle quilt for my mom. They’re subtle. I like them. It’s easy for me to combine fabrics of low volume.

This one is no different.

This one is an organized combination of six inch blocks and 3 1/4 inch blocks. You’ll see the four patch blocks made up of 3 1/4 inch blocks.

For the backing, I used a vintage floral sheet patterned with a lovely blue flower. This is the second or third time using a vintage sheet as the back of a cotton quilt. I also used a vintage sheet on the back of my Serendipity quilt.

I don’t collect the sheets as consistently as I used to, but I still have some really great ones sitting on my sewing shelves. I have some plans to use one on the back of my Scrappy Trip Around the World quilt too.

Despite that I’ve never met most of my customers in real life, I truly do enjoy making quilts for the few friends that I cross paths with on the internet. I hope these customers cherish their quilts as if they were made by a dear friend.

I’m not a mass producer of quilts by any means. Each one is special to me! Some quilters just tend to whip out quilt after quilt, and I still haven’t figured that one out. Mine are all slow and steady. There’s nothing fast about quilting for me yet!

I hope this quilt is loved and used and re-used during its life.

You can few other ‘in process’ photos and instructions for this quilt here and here. 🙂