A Glowing NEON Bubbles Custom Quilt
I am an 80’s kid. I DREAM in neon.
One custom neon bubbles lap quilt, please
When someone orders a custom quilt from my sight, they are prompted to fill out a tiny questionnaire during checkout. Do they already have an idea in mind? Do they have color preferences?Do they have their own fabric or clothing items that they want incorporated? They are asked to describe their future quilt in 5 words or phrases.
When I got this quilt order in my inbox, I eagerly scrolled to the questionnaire responses (It’s my favorite part of receiving an order. The possibilities! They are wide open!). They want neon colors?! They want a quilt that is bright and modern and unique and cozy?!?! Yes please! NeonBrightModernUniqueCozy is my middle name.
The Fabric choices
The fabric choices were limited in this case because you’d be shocked and disappointed at how few neon fabrics there are, although that is changing and there are more all the time. So the choices were limited but ELECTRIC. Exciting choices still abound.
I proposed options from Ruby Star Society, Alison Glass, Tula Pink’s Everglow collection, Libs Elliott, and Giucy Giuce’s DecoGlo collection.
This can be a difficult part of the process. Without being able to see the options in person, it can be hard for customers to select fabrics from photos that they’re seeing through a screen. I try to present them in context, next to other neutral fabrics, and in good natural light. Through a back and forth email conversation and elimination game, we settled on the final fabric pull, seen on the far right above.
Quilt mockups
Fabrics decided, we could get down to brass tacks. They were already pretty attached to the offset bubbles pattern that I had used for a ready-to-ship quilt called Sketchbook Vignettes they had spotted in the galleries. But they were open to other options, so the mockups I sent included the bubbles and also the Clava quilt pattern from Miss Make.
I think you can tell which one they ultimately went with, but it really helps to see all the options. You need to see solid background, light background, printed background, rainbow order arrangement, random arrangement, etc. So you can end up with a quilt that matches your vision, and so I can end up creating something you really love. (And also so you can end up thinking I am a creative genius who totally SEES your VISION.)
Neon Quilt in Process
This customer was so laid back and a joy to work with. They knew what they wanted, and trusted that I would deliver, and that allowed me to be flexible during the process. Flexibility is crucial so I can adjust the color placement, directionality, etc. to best fit the vision. I don’t mean to sound like a dramatic artist, but: It’s all about the vision!
The Finishing Quilt Touches
Because this quilt cannot help but POP in any room it’s in, I stuck with simple, classic straight line horizontal quilting in neutral gray thread to blend right into the background.
The customer chose one of their favorite prints from the quilt top to use as the backing, a neon green and turquoise floral by designer Tula Pink. Perfect.
Obviously this quilt was made with an era-appropriate late-80’s and early-90’s soundtrack in the background, and begged to be photographed by the Space Invaders mural on the freezer wall of a local ice cream shop.
Neon quilt in action: room styling ideas
I don’t always get to see my quilts in their natural habitats, their new homes. But in my head, this quilt is loving its new life. It fits in as a standout glowing accent in an otherwise neutral room. It fits in among other colorful and intriguing objets d’arte. It keeps people cozy in a workspace, it helps people live in a living room, it soothes napping people on a bed, and brightly greets them upon waking. It belongs here, in these beautiful spaces:
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