I wanted to see how it would look if I used the layout from two days ago, but instead of just two fabrics I used charms. I don’t have photos of my charms, so I just used the color fill tool in Paint to get an idea of how it would look. I would use my lighter charms in the center and the darkest ones on the outside.
I’m still on a blue & chartreuse streak.
This one is composed of two of the blocks from yesterday’s “quilt,” alternated with each other (no sashing this time). Then I added a sawtooth border using the same fabrics.
More blues. This is just a sampler of blocks, each made out of 16 pieces. The individual pieces are all either squares or half-square triangles.
I’ve actually got 25 of these blocks designed (well, some are designed - many are classics, like Anna’s Choice and the Old Maid’s Puzzle) but I’m only using 16 of them here. I eventually want to make a Dear-Jane-like quilt out of these blocks (complete with border triangles). I was thinking that blues on chartreuse would look good, but actually the patterns don’t always show up as well as I was hoping. I’ll have to try this again with some different fabrics.
Instead of making a virtual quilt today, I decided to do some work on a real one. I completed the third “ring” of pentagons today.
This is a charm quilt of pentagons using all red fabrics. I started with my lightest fabrics in the center, and am using progressively darker ones in rings around the center four.
I like this layout, but it’s kind of lame in these fabrics. I will have to try this one again with different ones. However, today is a nightmare & I have no time.
Another one I’m really happy with. It has a 3-D thing going on, which I wasn’t expecting. I also like that you can get a cool interlocking-rings look using three different diamond-in-a-square/rectangle blocks.
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Another quick layout with some of those Civil War prints, plus an indigo background:
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I’m calling this Civil War Triangles. I really like it, and I would totally make this for real, except that I have *no* idea how to piece this.
My “A Morris Garden” fat quarters arrived last Friday. I finally got around to photographing them, and couldn’t wait to design a layout with them. This layout was inspired by a photo of quilt I saw in someone’s Flikr stream. My office’s firewall doesn’t allow us to access Flikr photos, so I can’t get the exact detail on exactly where I saw it. I remember only that it belonged to either Moonstitches or Movinghands, and that the quilt was part of the Tokyo International Quilt Festival (2006, 2007 or 2008 - again I can’t remember).
If you like quilting and you haven’t seen those two photo streams, do yourself a favor and take a look. Lots of inspiration there!
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I am insanely happy with this one, more than I have any right to be. I am definitely going to have to make this one for real. Plus, I’ve gotten out of my Kaffe Fassett rut.
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