Curious quilt: a modern, twin-size quilt finish
Welcome to my second quilt finish of the year!
Today I’m sharing my brand new Curious quilt (Utelias in Finnish). It is a twin-size quilt sewn of two different blocks, and a project that I started in September 2025. I finished the quilt top in Febrary and shared the full start-to-finish piecing process earlier in my blog post about the 16-patch- and X-blocks in a quilt surface.
In this post you’ll get:
Today I’m sharing my brand new Curious quilt (Utelias in Finnish). It is a twin-size quilt sewn of two different blocks, and a project that I started in September 2025. I finished the quilt top in Febrary and shared the full start-to-finish piecing process earlier in my blog post about the 16-patch- and X-blocks in a quilt surface.
In this post you’ll get:
- Proof that quilting makes the surface come to life
- Many pictures of this quilt
- Summary of quilt details for this Curious quilt.
It felt great to photograph this one on a sunny afternoon. My lovely husband is a seasoned quilt-holder and most of the images from the photo shoot came out great.
This is the first test block – or block-and-a-half – that I made in September 2025.
Can you spot the test block on the finished surface?
Here’s a picture that I was going to use in the February post but did not:
We had quite a bit of snow in January-February time this year, and sub-zero temperatures as well. I remember that my fingers were soon getting too cold to operate the phone camera and I had to settle with just a few photos of the surface. (And even so, I left this one out of the post…)
Soile at Töölön Tilkkupaja did the longarm quilting, and the cute quilting pattern “Peeling Good” looks perfect on the surface! It really transformed the surface. It’s striking how much texture quilting adds. It’s that beautiful finishing touch!
Though not quite the final touch. I took the above photo during the final steps of the process – trimming, labeling, choosing the binding fabric, making the binding and last, sewing the binding. When a quilt comes back from longarm quilting, there’s quite a bit to do, still – at least for me.
Curious is a twin-size quilt: around 177,5 cm x 215 cm (69,5” x 84,5”) – large enough for a single bed, or a generous sofa quilt.
The rock boulders close to where I live give many opportunities for photo shoots, and we soon found a spot where the quilt could hang straight. That place was less favourable wind-wise, though. On the upside, this picture shows you a peek of my chosen backing fabric – a wideback in clear blue and white:
You may ask which pattern I used, and the answer is: none really. I saw a picture of a similar quilt and figured out which kinds of blocks I needed. In the process, I focused on choosing the fabrics for each block and in the final design phase, how to organise the blocks in a balanced way across the surface.
Though Curious is not my “new favourite quilt, I liked making it and I’m glad I finished it. And every quilt finish teaches me something: with Curious, I enjoyed seeing how strongly the quilting changed the surface texture to the better.
Quilting makes the surface come alive
Now is a good opportunity for us to admire how much quilting means for the quilt! Just compare the flimsy in the previous photo to this one which shows the quilting in more detail:
Though not quite the final touch. I took the above photo during the final steps of the process – trimming, labeling, choosing the binding fabric, making the binding and last, sewing the binding. When a quilt comes back from longarm quilting, there’s quite a bit to do, still – at least for me.
Curious quilt in photos
The next photo shows you the Curious quilt with its lower edge resting on the boulder. This was the place where I kept asking Husband to hold the quilt higher, to which he finally said that he just was not any taller than that. (He is pretty tall, but this was just a smidge too long a quilt for him to hold straight.)
The rock boulders close to where I live give many opportunities for photo shoots, and we soon found a spot where the quilt could hang straight. That place was less favourable wind-wise, though. On the upside, this picture shows you a peek of my chosen backing fabric – a wideback in clear blue and white:
Though Curious is not my “new favourite quilt, I liked making it and I’m glad I finished it. And every quilt finish teaches me something: with Curious, I enjoyed seeing how strongly the quilting changed the surface texture to the better.
Curious is the 95th quilt that I’ve finished in my recorded history (some of the makes are smallish toddler/baby quilts though). The 100-quilt milestone feels surprisingly close!
After the portrait photos were done, Curious got to pose one more time, perhaps a little more artistically. I don’t know how much time other quilters take to create just the right kind of folds for photos, but I rather tend to think that “done is better than perfect”.
The folds may not be perfect in this shot, but the colours of the fabrics look super nice! And you can perhaps see something of the striped binding that I chose.
Blocks: 16-patch and X-blocks
Size: Twin-size - around 177,5 cm x 215 cm (69,5” x 84,5”)
Quilting: longarm quilted by Soile Kivinen at Töölön Tilkkupaja
Quilting pattern: Peeling Good edge-to-edge
Backing: wideback, clear blue and white (also from Töölön Tilkkupaja)
Binding: 6 cm wide self-made bias binding folded in half before attaching
Finished: 30 March 2026
Quilt number: 95
After the portrait photos were done, Curious got to pose one more time, perhaps a little more artistically. I don’t know how much time other quilters take to create just the right kind of folds for photos, but I rather tend to think that “done is better than perfect”.
The folds may not be perfect in this shot, but the colours of the fabrics look super nice! And you can perhaps see something of the striped binding that I chose.
Quilt details for Curious
Pattern: self-drafted, inspired by a reference quiltBlocks: 16-patch and X-blocks
Size: Twin-size - around 177,5 cm x 215 cm (69,5” x 84,5”)
Quilting: longarm quilted by Soile Kivinen at Töölön Tilkkupaja
Quilting pattern: Peeling Good edge-to-edge
Backing: wideback, clear blue and white (also from Töölön Tilkkupaja)
Binding: 6 cm wide self-made bias binding folded in half before attaching
Finished: 30 March 2026
Quilt number: 95
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