Balance Quilt 02

A folded quilt on a bed. There is an orange sun on a lighter orange background with quilted rays coming out of the sun.
A folded quilt on a bed. There's a white moon on a dark blue background with horizontal lines quilted across it.

Pattern/Technique: Balance Quilt by Skyclad Quilts

Modifications: none

Materials: Kona cotton in the following colorways (Aurifil 50 wt colorways in brackets)

  • Windsor 3/4 yd (2800)

  • Dresden 1/2 yd (2710)

  • Cloud 1/4 yd (2524)

  • Sky 1/4 yd (2775)

  • Cantaloupe 1/4 yd

  • Nectarine 1/4 yd

  • Flame 1/8 yd/remnant (2245) for sun

  • White 1/8 yd/remnant for moon

  • Natural 2 yd for backing

New skills: Adding a quilt label

Lessons: Drew chalk lines using my chaco liner for quilting guides which worked significantly better than a metal quilting arm on the presser foot.

Went from dark to light while quilting so that if I needed to cheat the width of a quilted line a little bit it blended into the closer spaced lines in the lighter colored section.

Important info to include in a quilt label: the name of the quilt, who it’s for, who pieced and/or quilted it, when it was finished. Optional: thoughts / feelings / wishes from when the quilt was made or for the recipient.

What I'd do differently: I only quilted 12 rays coming out of the sun, and while I like the look of this, I think doing 24 would add additional stability to the batting in a heavily used baby quilt.

Care: Machine wash cold, tumble dry low.

Close up of a label on the back of a quilt, which reads: Balance Quilt, Made for Lin, Pieced and Quilted by Lauren Gust, April 4, 2022
The back of the quilt, made from natural cotton and quilted lines in the same color gradient as the front of the quilt
Close up of quilted blue lines on a natural cotton background.
Close up of orange quilted rays coming out of a zigzag stitched circle on a natural cotton background.