MSQ’s Folded in Love Quilt
This month, we’ve been sharing lots of fun photos of the process of making our Folded in Love sample over on our Instagram feed. In this post, we’re going to dig into all the details of our sample quilt!
Jessica’s pattern comes in two useful sizes, throw and baby. The throw is a great picnic-blanket size or perfect for just throwing on the couch. It’s big enough to cover anyone who needs some warmth without being overwhelming.
During the pattern-testing phase, we actually ended up making two samples in our logo colors. The first was pieced by Lilo Whitener-Fey of Trace Creek Quilting, and the second (the one in most of the pictures) was pieced by Christine Boyd. As we mentioned in the first post of the month, this quilt design was based on our logo, so we knew we wanted to use solids in matching colors to really call back to the logo. Of course, we think these colors also work great for a modern service quilt, offering an all-blue option in some less obvious shades. The background is a Moda Bella off-white solid, and the blue stripes are Kona cottons in (from darkest to lightest) Marine, Copen, Waterfall, and Dusty Blue.
Christine, our web designer, always makes the best mockups of the quilts, and the ones below provide some fun alternatives for this pattern. Breaking the reds and blues into sections, like in the first one, creates a unique play on the flag design, and the darker background of the second one really enhances the “folded” part of the quilt pattern’s name, giving the feel of someone having the quilt wrapped around them and being folded in love.
Lilo quilted our sample and chose the Shields pattern. It’s hard to imagine a more fitting quilting pattern for a service quilt. It not only, of course, reflects a shield motif, but it also has a bit of a feel of a sweater knitting pattern, reinforcing the quilt’s comfort and warmth.
Lilo finished off the binding on our final sample quilt using Topographical Adventure in Blue from the Around the Campfire collection by Lemonni, while Jessica completed the binding on the first one with Starlight in Cadet from Elizabeth Hartman's Paintbox Basics.
Both quilts were backed with the coziest Mammoth Flannel in Royal. Flannel makes a perfect backing for any quilt but is especially perfect for a service quilt, which should be something the recipient really wants to wrap up in and feel loved and supported.
If all this goodness has inspired you to jump in and create your own version, then head on over to Jessica’s store to grab your copy of the pattern. And don’t forget Jessica is donating 75% of the proceeds from the Folded in Love pattern for the month of November to the National Association of Minority Veterans (NAMVETS), so grab your pattern this month to stretch your impact for some very worthy veterans. You can check out this post for lots more about Jessica’s collaboration with MSQ.
Also, to see even more (non-service-quilt) versions of the pattern to get your creativity flowing, be sure to follow Jessica on Instagram or her website, where she’s been sharing the other tester versions she made for the release. Happy quilting!
Photos of the finished MSQ quilt were taken by Angela Armstrong. In-progress photos were taken by Sarah Holst.
