Kaleidoscope Quilt and Split Square Kitty Blocks

Kaleidoscope/ Grandma's Dress quilt

Kaleidoscope/ Grandma's Dress quilt has finally been quilted

It seems to take me forever to decide on a quilting design for this little kaleidoscope quilt. These blocks are mostly staggered pinwheels with some solid white blocks in between to give it this extended pinwheel look which I love!

The back is a soft pink minkee fabric, a bit tricky to sew with but not as bad as some of the thicker patterned minkee.

Before I started quilting, I stitched in the ditch down the centre of the quilt to hold the minkee in place. Then I ditch quilted around the inner pink border and added a bunch more pins to the outside to hold the minkee securely. (I learned this trick the hard way!)

The rest of the quilt is done in free motion quilting (using my beloved Janome Horizon 7700 machine.)

Free motion daisy design on the inner pinwheel/ split square triangle blocks.

Free motion butterfly and swirls design in pink thread on the pink outer border.

Ocean swirls in white thread on the white border.

Minkee back of quilt shows the quilting stitches well.

The binding I did in white which offsets this quilt nicely.
I can't part with this one!    😊  💗