C + C Quilt

This is a bit of a crazy quilt - a wedding quilt for friends of a friend. Originally it was going to be similar to the quilt I did for my friends L + P which I did last year - but evolved into something completely different. My friend wanted fabrics to signify their life - so apparently SHE works for the UN and has done lots of humanitarian work in Africa and South America and likes ninjas. HE is Scottish ancestry and works in computers. I will start with the back as I actually completed that first. And so evolved the Nelson Mandela, Scottish Tartan (and yes it is the correct tartan for his clan), ninja and Pacman quilt back.

Instead of a heart like I did in the L + P quilt I did a ninja star made up of 2" colours. 


The front actually took me ages to complete as I had a hard time with the busyness of the fabric my friend had picked. I happened to come across some awesome African mother fabric in a destash group and inspiration evolved! In the end I went for Elizabeth Hartman's Kitchen Window pattern slightly modified as I wanted to fussycut the fabric. I pulled a tonne of other green & black fabrics from my stash as well.


 So very subtly I turned two of the windows into "C"'s.


I also made the centre window into a +. So it became C + C



This is also the first fully freemotioned quilt I have quilted! I used a bit of stippling, wavy lines and kinda a giant star flower in the centre.



all I can say is crazy! My friend loves it so I hope her friends do as well!!