Nightingale Quilt - using my Palette Picks FQ bundle!
Today I'm sharing about my final quilt that I made with my Robert Kaufman Palette Picks bundle! If you want a recap on the other quilts, you can check them out here.
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When I was first planning which quilt patterns I wanted to make with my bundle, Nightingale was at the top of the list! It's probably my favorite fat quarter friendly quilt that is really great for showing off bold blocks of color. I went back and forth about what I wanted my background fabric to be...either a darker background or a lighter one. I love my darker background quilts. I would say that I actually prefer them to a white/cream background. But with this project, I knew that I had to make BOTH. Let's start with the darker version since that's the first one that I made. :)
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Charcoal Nightingale Quilt
Gotham Grey is typically my go-to dark grey Kona solid. I used it as the sashing in both my Enchanted and Cover Church Window quilts and I also used it as the background for my cover Knitted Star quilt. However, with this project, my bundle has several different textures of fabric, so I wanted to add to that and use something that had some extra texture as well. I landed on Robert Kaufman's Essex Yarn Dyed (which is a mix of cotton and linen) in the color Charcoal. I normally use solid quilt cotton fabrics for the backgrounds of my quilts, but this was a fun change of pace!
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One thing to note is that this fabric is slightly thicker than traditional quilting cotton. You might need to slightly decrease your seam allowance to account for that.
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Ashley of Henhouse Quilting quilted all of my Palette Picks quilts and for this one, we used a pantograph called Paradoxical by the Longarm League. I also used this pantograph on my Autumn Heirloom Hearts quilt and I truly feel like it looks good on such a wide variety of quilt patterns!
We went back and forth about what thread color to use because we wanted it to blend into both the background and the foreground fabrics as much as possible. We landed on a light pink and I love that it gives subtle texture without too much contrast.
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For the backing, I used one of the Kona solids from my bundle, Kona Delft. The binding is Kona Gumdrop.
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The colors of this bundle read a little more "cool" in this quilt, which I found interesting and quite the opposite from what my Snow Nightingale quilt looks like! Keep scrolling to see what I mean!
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Snow Nightingale Quilt
So for this quilt, I wanted to go a more traditional route and use Kona Snow. If you've never sewn with Snow before, it's the perfect shade of off-white and really goes well with everything!
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Ashley also quilted this quilt for me and we used a pantograph called "Behold", also by the Longarm League. I LOVE the movement and 1920s vibe that this one has! It's my second time using the design...I also used it on this Deco quilt last year and it was perfect. This is another really versatile design that goes with a lot of piecing motifs!
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I went a little crazy with the backing fabric here. For all of my other Palette Picks quilts, I went with coordinating backings and such just to tie everything in and make it all cohesive. However, this was my last quilt that I made for the collection and I wanted to go out on a limb and try something new. For some reason, Kona Dragon Fruit was really speaking to me for this one and I'm not sure why! It's the most beautiful (bright) almost neon/hot pink fabric and while I couldn't really put my finger on it, it fit the bill perfectly! I used Kona Corsage (which is in the bundle) for the binding.
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And here are both of the quilt together. See what I mean about one feeling warmer and one feeling cooler? It's fun to see how a background can really change the overall look and feel of a quilt, even if all of the other fabrics are the same.
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This was such a fun project and I hope that you enjoyed following along! For a recap of each of my individual quilts that I made with my Palette Picks fat quarter bundle, click below:
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