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Quilt Finish: Tone it Down Quilt

12/6/2020

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Back in February 2014, I saw a scrappy quilt in American Patchwork & Quilting that caught my eye.  I pulled out the pages with the tutorial on how to make that quilt, and saved it - for 5.5 years to be exact! I loved the traditional feel of the blocks, but wasn't sure exactly what colors or fabrics I wanted to use. After a few wrong turns, I found this quilt, and knew I wanted to make mine Christmas colored (green circles and red lines).
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This pattern is an adaptation on the Burgoyne Surrounded block, and I love how changing the sashing simplified it so much. One change and such a large impact! 
I started cutting pieces for this quilt in the second half of 2019 and finished piecing it in March of 2020 (nothing like a pandemic to provide you with enough time to finish a quilt with one million pieces).

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The "Tone it Down" block contains 97 pieces (oh mama!). The original pattern calls for 20 blocks and finishes at roughly 75" x 93".  I edited mine to only be 16 squares so it finishes at 75" square.
When you count the sashing in my version,  that makes for 1,817 pieces in total in this quilt. This quilt has the most pieces of any quilt that I've every made.
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 This was another quilt that required a ton of low-volume fabrics for the background. I pulled not only black-on-white fabrics, but also a few green-on-white and red-on-white cuts to round everything out.
I backed the quilt in my favorite pistachio extra-wide minky and had it quilted by my local long-arm quilter with this snowflake pattern called "White Out" from Urban Elementz.
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I  bound the quilt with this fun red, white and green diagonal stripe from Connecting Threads (but I can't find it on their website currently). Striped binding are fun, and Christmas stripes are the best!
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I had this quilt quilted back in July, and saved it to share here with you during the holiday season.  I absolutely love holiday quilts - especially new ones. Last year I gifted my two scrappy holiday quilts (see them here and here). This one, however, I am keeping for mysel! This quilt feels somehow monumental and I look forward to years of enjoyment.
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The good news is that the pattern is still available on the All People Quilt website. Click to purchase it: Tone it Down.  You can see more of my  in-progress pictures at #myrthstoneitdownquilt. You should also check out the #toneitdownquilt hashtag for lots of eye candy.

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  • About Me
  • Blog
  • Commissions
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    • Solid HST Quilt
    • Going Places Quilt Tutorial
    • Star-in-a-Star Baby Quilt Tutorial
    • Scrappy Inner Star Quilt Pattern
    • Inner Star Quilt Pattern
    • HST Chaos
    • Scrappy Goose Quilt
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    • Quilt Show Ribbon Tutorial
    • Double Bear Paw Block
    • Improv Sticks Border
    • Wreath Mega Block Quilt
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