A fun finish this past week was an Ombre Mountains Throw quilt in a Sunset Over the Mountains color scheme of golds to reds to purples to teals and finally to blues. This quilt design is perfect for creating quilts that reflect colors seen in nature, such as desert to sky, or sea to sky. In this case, it's mountains to sunset!
The Ombre Mountains quilt pattern includes 6 sizes, so you don't have to do any of the math to create the size you really want to make.
These fabrics are Shimmer Tonals from Connecting Threads. They have a quilt kit available in the Throw size, which you will
find right here.
Oh, Those Shimmering Fabrics!
This beautiful shimmering fabric collection is new at Connecting Threads. Meet Shimmer Tonals! The plan is this fabric will be an evergreen fabric, which means it will be stocked for an extended period of time in the future. Yay! Those shimmering fabrics are made with flecks of lighter hues in the color, and they certainly do shimmer!
Connecting Threads has kitted Ombre Mountains in Shimmer Tonals.
Click here to see the quilt kit.
The Shimmer Tonals fabrics included in this Ombre Mountains quilt are as follows, top to bottom as shown in the Fabric Requirements.
Ochre
Lemon
Orange
Red
Royal Purple
Amethyst
Hydrangea
Dusty Aqua
Baltic Sea
Lagoon
Sapphire
Admiral Blue
Bluebell
Glacier
Binding - Sapphire
The backing on this quilt is Widescreen in Gray by Robert Kaufman.
The Ombre Mountains Quilt Pattern
This quilt pattern includes all of the sizes - 6 in all - Baby, Lap, Throw, Twin, Queen, and King. This pattern was written before I decided to include the Full size when it works, and it likely would have worked in this pattern. Using different sizes of blocks and rectangles in each quilt size is what made so many sizes work.
This is the Throw size which measures approximately 62" x 78". It's the perfect size for two to snuggle up on the sofa for an evening of relaxing.
This modern quilt pattern is truly quick and easy with large pieces and simple piecing. If you can make a half-square triangle, then you can make this quilt.
Quilts make amazing tablecloths!
Longarm Machine Quilting
This quilt was made by my sewist Kare Ybarra and quilted and bound by me. The quilting was done on my HandiQuilter Amara with ProStitcher. The design is Aqua Flame by Lorien Quilting. Thread color varies down the quilt from yellow to orange to purple to light teal and bright blue, so the thread blends in to each color group.
This quilting design resembles shimmering flames.
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