It’s been a little while since I made a new quilt, but last night I finished this Tesselation quilt top! The pattern is hot off the presses in Alison Glass’s pattern shop, and available in both pdf and paper form. This is a gorgeous quilt that finishes at 48″ x 60″, which is a great size to quilt yourself on your sewing machine. I just got a new class on Craftsy, called ‘Creative Quilting with your Walking Foot’ by Jacquie Gering, and when I get around to quilting this sucker, I also plan on reviewing the class. Actually quilting a quilt is my weak area, so I’m hoping that this class will be a lightbulb for me!
If you think you’d like to make the Tesselation pattern this summer, stay tuned Monday as I will be kicking off a leisurely sew along on my blog for 6 weeks. I took photos of how I paper-pieced each block, which I hope will be helpful to newer paper-piecers!
Supplies Needed – This quilt may be made scrappy, but the pattern calls for 25 different 1/4 yard cuts, which I found to be accurate (I got exactly that much fabric, except in 1/2 yard cuts instead, and had just enough). I also like the solid version of the quilt on the back of the booklet. I used ‘Indelible’ fabrics by Katarina Roccella for Art Gallery Fabrics, as well as coordinating Pure Elements solids. I chose only fabrics that read as purple, gray, and teal from this line, in order to make my fabrics more distinctive-looking.
Pattern Pieces – This is a foundation paper-pieced pattern, and there are 6 different triangles used throughout the pattern (one triangle is a solid cut). The paper-piecing is fairly simple, and it was actually fun to do, as they went along quickly. I cut out all my fabrics and printed templates before I started, which made things go along a lot more quickly. Also, I pieced one type of block at a time, alternating between my 3 color groupings.
Instructions/Illustrations – The instructions are more than adequate to get through the pattern, and there are illustrations for cutting as well as for how to begin paper-piecing if you haven’t before.
Modifications – I didn’t make any modifications to the pattern. Besides a couple of triangles, I followed the layout on the back of the pattern exactly. It really is a very pretty layout, with a large star in the center of the quilt.
Conclusion – This was really fun to make! I am pretty sure I could have chosen any grouping of fabrics and any layout and it still would have come out amazing. It is very forgiving. I absolutely love that I used Indelible for this quilt, as the colors are gorgeous!
See you on Monday for the start of the sew along. 🙂
This turned out so beautiful!!! Love the fabrics you chose for this as well. Maybe I will try and jump on that sew along next week.
Absolutely beautiful!
Love your color selection and the way it is disbursed throughout the quilt. I think gray is a fabulous color and goes with just about everything. Though I do not need a new project right now, I will be vicariously following the QAL.
I’m taking Jaquie’s class on Craftsy and just completed quilting a top that languished in my room for 3 years! It was SEW much fun and can’t wait to continue trying out her techniques.
so, so gorgeous! I really want to get my hands on some Indelible now that I’ve finished up my Jungle Ave super tote!
I love how your quilt turned out! Absolutely beautiful!
It looks so complex and beautiful. Extra on he beautiful.
Great play of light and shadow, lovely work. Your review is very helpful. Thanks!
This is gorgeous! The jewel tones are lovely. Paper piecing is my downfall…. I should try this!
This is a beautiful quilt, love the colors!
Very nice quilt and I LOVE the colors together. Tassellation quilts are my favorite. Wayne Kollinger has some awesome tessellation a on his very unique quilting design blog.
And Jacquie Gering is my all time favorite quilter! You will love her craftsy class and her design methods. She absolutely rocks!
V beautiful luv to learn
Hi I am part way through that Creative Quilting with your Walking Foot class on Craftsy – it is really good. You will learn a lot. Lovely quilt – I would love to give this one a try and I have incidentally just purchased half a yard each of Indelible 🙂
What a great color combo! Turned out really pretty. Well done!
Love it! Love it totally!
OMG! Are those paper pieced triangles? How clever. I’ve just finished an equilateral triangle quilt myself and plain triangles were tricky enough for me. Amazing!
this is a reasl beauty, love the colour choice too
This is gorgeous Sara!!
Your quilt is beautiful Sarah! Do you need regular 1/4 yard cuts or would FQ’s work?
The jewel tones in yours are just gorgeous!
It really does look wonderful with those clever fabrics. Such pretty saturation of color.
That looks great in the Indelible 🙂
will I be able to follow this through email? I wont be able to start when you do but would love to have the visual when I’m ready. I just ordered the pattern and template. This is just so beautiful!
Can’t believe I didn’t comment on this post!!!! Sara, you are amazing!!! Everything you do is just brilliant!!!!Thank you so much for using my fabrics!!!<3
Lori – SewPsyched – is encouraging me to join. Your quilt is gorgeous! So if I understand, this will be leisurely, and it’s all paper pieced?
Wow that is a really cool quilt. Thanks for sharing
Absolutely Stunning! I just bought the pattern and was a little intimidated by the paper piecing. I’ve never done it before. Your post is reassuring and I am no longer afraid. I will be making it soon and checking back often on your sew along. Thank you!
This is beautiful! I really love all the different pieces put together. Maybe one of these days, I’ll work up the nerve for a full quilt.