The title Crown Royal makes me think of a James Bond Movie, but this is about my recent quilt.
My youngest son asked if I would make him a Crown Royal whiskey bag quilt. I told him if he provided the bags I would assemble a quilt. Over the past year he has asked friends to save their Crown Royal bags and in March he gave me approximately 100 bags.
The most common Crown Royal bag is the purple, so I assumed my son would be giving me 100 purple bags. To my surprise there are a few different colored bags that coordinate with each flavor of whiskey that they come with. I wasn't confident that this modge-podge of colored bags would make a nice looking quilt, so I found a purple batik fabric that included most of the colors of the bags to help connect it together.
The most time consuming work was cutting up the bags into squares to assemble into a block. The bags were stretchy and raveled easily, so I added an iron-on stabilizer to the back of each square. Adding cotton fabric squares in-between the bag squares also seemed to add more stability.
Assembling the quilt I used more purple bag blocks than the other colors - I think the combination of colors works.
My son's birthday was June 21st. Although I normally don't do much sewing between May and August I felt that this was important to try and finish as his birthday present. Between cold nights and mornings, the past few days were rainy and doing some sewing outside on my deck - I was able to complete this Crown Royal quilt in time for his birthday. It felt great to have this mission accomplished. Best of all he loves his Crown Royal quilt.
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The finished Crown Royal quilt measures 88 inches by 88 inches.
This photo shows the different colored whiskey bags used. |
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| Above shows a close-up and some of the assorted colored bags. |
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One of my favorite bags was the one that included the state of
Michigan. There were only a couple of this style bag in my stash
to add to the quilt. |
When this quilt was finished I was very pleased with the end result. My first doubts to have such an assortment of colored bags mixed together proved to work great. Glad to have this one completed - now I have to go on to the next quilt (that is when it's a rainy day).
