Dot and Dash Quilt in Candlelight Colors

There's something therapeutic about making a modern quilt. When you are piecing simple shapes in a simple design, your focus shifts to color and detail. And for me, a white background is less forgiving - and I pay closer attention to my work and try to make fewer mistakes.

This was my first quilt from designer Nicole Daksiewicz of Modern Handcraft. All of her quilt designs are very modern, stunning patterns. Check out her variations of this Dot and Dash quilt in bright colors in a rainbow design, in pinks, and in soft pastels - gorgeous!

For this quilt, a gift to a BFF, I chose Ruby Star's Candlelight line of fabrics. augmented with blue and taupe solids that I agonized over, because they just didn't seem to match. I even emailed Nicole and asked her advice. (How these designers put up with me, I'll never know.) In the end, the solids I chose worked well. The quilting gods are so kind to me!

I loved making this quilt so much that I am ready to make it again, this time in grays and golds.

Ruby Star's Candlelight fabrics are a non-traditional winter holiday design. You can celebrate the holidays all year 'round with this quilt.

I love how the bright salmon (or is it orange-red? Persimmon?) pops in this quilt. (Somebody who knows the names of all 3,497,411 colors, chime in here. Lisa?)

Quilter Longarmed and Dangerous chose a swirly leaf quilting pattern to offset and soften the sharp angles.

Everyone in my family loved this quilt. 🤎

I could easily design a whole room around this quilt!

Candlelight is very generous with the metallic gold. It adds so much dimension to this quilt.

For the backing, I chose one of the Candlelight fabrics used in the front - Winter Garden in Wool.

Ready for gifting!

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To learn more about this quilt and Diane's other quilting projects, contact her at diane.fitzpatrick@mac.com. And check out her Instagram page.

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