Quilt Finish: Playing Tricks Quilt

During COVID, given  all the time we've been spending at home together, my quilts have become even more popular than ever (with my family).   I made a new quilt for my youngest (read about it here), my middle child claimed my Scrappy Inner Star quilt, and my oldest child wanted me to make him something with minky backing.  I had him look through some designs I had mocked up a while ago, and he was drawn to something similar to the design below.  It is a derivation of the Criss-Cross block from "1000 Great Quilt Blocks" by Maggi McCormick Gordon.

To come up with our color palette, I matched the gray to his existing duvet cover, and the green to his existing rug. From there he established the he didn't want to introduce any new colors, so I went with a green several shades darker from the green that matched his rug.  The colors that we ended up using are all Kona solids: White, Cactus, Grass Green, and Pewter.

Given that my child wanted his quilt backed with minky, I knew that I would have it long-arm quilted. (I've quilted one full-size minky-backed quilt and that was enough for me.)  When it came time to choose the quilting pattern, I wanted something that didn't have strong vertical lines that wouldn't conflict with the strong diagonals in the quilt top. I also didn't want to use the same "modern waves" pattern that I've been defaulting to lately. So I landed on this "malachite" pattern from Urban Elementz.  I love that it looks like a topo map and the "X" blocks remind me of a treasure map.

If I had had enough left over "Pewter" fabric, I would have used that for binding; or if the quilt wasn't for my son, I would have added fuchia or orange binding.  But it was for him, and I didn't have anymore pewter fabric, so I went with this Timeless Treasures cross-hatch fabric.  It works well enough for me and it was on hand: win-win.

I won't be writing a pattern for this quilt. My sewing minutes are so few and far between these days, and I don't want to spend the time working on Illustrator graphics, and cutting instructions.  If someone really wants to know how I made this, let me know and I can walk you through it a little bit.  For now, I'll say that this quilt has 12 blocks, and each block is made up of 16 - 5" pieces that make up a 20" block overall.  I've got some highlights in my Instagram stories that will show how the 5" pieces are assembled.
The quilt finishes at 60" x 80".
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