Looper Quilt – Pink Rainbow

I’ve been wanting to make a Looper Quilt since the first day I saw Miss Make post it! I love a modular quilt pattern and this one is the ultimate!

(CW: Adoption)

The background

Two of our closest friends told us they were working on the process to adopt kids and I got so excited! Super excited for them to have a family, super excited for a couple of kids that will get to have great parents, and super excited I would get to make them their own quilts!! I had some patterns I’d been gathering, so when they said they were matched with two kids I was ready. One liked your typical kids cartoons – Pokemon, Power Rangers, etc. The other liked unicorn and rainbows. Yes. I can do that! I had already bought a Pokeball quilt pattern from Lindsey Mosely (I’ll be writing a blog post on that one soon!) and decided this was my chance to make Looper!

(Sadly the adoption for these two fell through, so I’ve kept the Looper, but the Pokemon Quilt is waiting for its kid!)

Choosing the colours

Once I picked Ruby Star Society’s Starfetti as the background I picked out some colours from it to make a rainbow, but no matter which colours I swapped in and out I wasn’t quite happy with it.

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These colours are a mix of:

• Moda Bella Clementine
• Moda Bella Canteloupe
• Moda Bella Citrine
• Moda Bella Jade
• Moda Bella Admiral Blue
• Moda Bella Berrylicious
• Kona Solids Lipstick
• Kona Solids Grellow

Enter all pink rainbow! (Which I later found out is very similar to the Lesbian Pride flag! If you want to make a Lesbian Pride Looper I recommend the following colours!)

These are (from top down):

• Moda Bella Berrylicious
• Kona Solids Bubblegum
• Kona Solids Salmon
• Moda Bella Canteloupe
• Moda Bella Clementine
• Kona Solids Lipstick

The design

The coolest thing about Looper is it’s modular construction. You can print out teeny squares that mimic the pattern and colour them in so that you can play around and make up your own layout! I did this, but decided I wanted it more rainbow like than I could get with the standard layout configuration, so I decided to centre my “rainbow” and chop some blocks in half. The little colouring in squares were perfect for this!!

Miss Make set up the coolest thing on Instagram called #thelooperloop where you can add photos of your looper blocks and when you look at the hashtag they create a meandering Looper design. Here are some screenshots I took after I added my own.

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The quilting

I wanted to try something different with this one and follow the curves with the quilting and it was tricky! I quilted a 1/4″ on either side of the curve seams and it took me a couple tries to figure out the best way to shove the quilt through my machine.

I also backed it in some pink and glow in the dark minky, so that made it really heavy and harder to move around as I quilted. It was totally worth it though, I love how it turned out! I filled in the background with some diagonal lines that I marked with a hera marker at even spaces.

Even if you haven’t sewn curves before I definitely think you should make this quilt! The smallest curve is a little tricky then it just gets easier from there! I have a 3-5 pin system depending how big the curve is, but found I do well with the checkpoints at the beginning, middle point, and end! (For the biggest curves I also added a pin at the quater points to make sure I wasn’t stretching too much before I got to the middle point.)

This is now our living room quilt since it goes pretty well with our red/orange accent theme. The minky makes it soooo cuddly, I’d definitely use it for kid quilts again! Hopefully it won’t be long before our friends are matched again and can have their family and I can make them their own quilts!

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