5in Squares become a Chandelier!

Starting with 2 very pretty packs of 5in Charm Squares, a pretty piece of grey fabric and a quest to try out a 'new to me' pattern, lead to this super fun quilt to make.  

The charm squares and background fabric. 
The pink fabric was later put away and not used.

The thing with Charm Square packs is that they are so pretty and gorgeous range of colours when you look at them side on.  

Such a pretty rainbow when viewed side on.

A nice, quick quilt to make, with easy cutting and chain piecing, I had the top together in no-time at all.  Since making this quilt, I have ordered 2 more charm square packs to make another one.  I just can't help myself!

A peek of the backing onto the front.

As each block only used 1.5 of each 5in square, I joined the rest of the pieces together to make a fun panel to put into the backing.  This is part of my goal to use all of the fabric in each quilt I make instead of accumulating left over scraps.

Left over pieces pieced together to make the back more interesting.

I quilted this quilt on my DSM with an all over surf-curl wave pattern, using 50wt variegated thread.  Super easy to quilt and no tension issues.  I'm pretty proud of the quilting on this one.

The finished quilt!  49in x 72in

We were having issues with the very sunny day and so the photo had to be taken under the verandah to stop it from being too blown out with the light.  An interesting quilt and a bit of break away from my 'usual' colour choices.






Chandelier Beads pattern can be found here.  I changed the pattern sizes to use 5in squares.