Shimmer On

I'm a total sucker for metallic fabrics, so that explains why I'm so excited about this quilt. Shimmer is a collection designed by Jennifer Sampou, and I just love the gorgeous sheens in this fabric collection in nature-inspired colors.

The pattern I used is Nellie by Gudrun Erla, and it's one of those intricate-looking but super-easy disappearing quilt block patterns. I've often talked about how much I love Gudrun's Stripology ruler, and this pattern was designed to be used with Stripology to make it super simple.

I kept the quilting of this quilt very simple in the foreground, with just a simple geometric design to hold the quilt down. I absolutely do not want to quilt heavy over metallics, as I have more issues with my thread shredding over such fabrics, and of course, I don't like to obscure the gorgeous fabric with quilting.

I couldn't resist quilting the background more heavily of course, and there's no way I would not quilt some dense swirls on a background like that. But I didn't want the whole background to be just swirls, so I also alternated in a geometric design.

This entire quilt was fun and easy to make, and I had such a good time playing with the stunning fabrics. Sadly it is very much out of print, so I can only hope Jennifer will design more collections like this in the future.