Tropical Sunset for Blogger's Quilt Festival Fall 2014

Welcome to my entry into the

Blogger's Quilt Festival.

Made with the Kona Sunset fabric palette

I call this quilt

Tropical Sunset

This year, Kona Cotton Solid fabric  by Robert Kaufman is celebrating 30 years

and have now reached 303 hues of solid colors.

I tend to use a little Kona in most of my quilts.

This quilt was made for the 

Wake Up to Kona Blog Hop

in January.

I was lucky enough to receive an advanced copy of Amanda Murphy's book

Color Essentials

which is full of information in color study and has great projects using Kona palettes.

The pattern is from this book and is called Color Burst.

I used Black Kona as the background.

In her book, Amanda Murphy talks about using "Poison Colors" - colors directly opposite on the color wheel to add interest and movement to a design.  I decided to take that advice and use orange as the binding color. 

The orange really fits with a sunset and added a little pop.

I quilted the main part with free motion flowers using Aurifil thread and wavy lines on the water (teal) part.

Amanda has an excellent tutorial for continuous bias binding on her blog. 

This was my first  bias binding, by the way.  Love.

A view of the back.

According to the calculations

C

=

2

π

r

(Circumference of a circle)

Tropical Sunset is in the small quilt category.

With a radius of 36"

this quilt is approximately 226" around, not counting all the bumps and indentations.

So here are the details:

Quilt size:  70" across 

 see above calculations :) 

Fabric:  Kona solids in Sunset palette

Quilting:  by me on my Janome domestic

Thank you, Amy of Amy's Creative Side
for this opportunity.

Be sure to visit Amy's blog and see all the quilty inspiration!

If you are looking for my post in the

Black Cat Crossing Blog Hop

it is HERE.