The wind has been blowing very strongly this winter - so I made a blanket for the opening. It is held in place with strategically placed magnets and filled with fiberfill. A little bit of quilting and we have wind protection for those days when we don’t want a fire.
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.
some befores:
on an unrelated note, I want this:
is it considered creepy to find random pictures of someone’s cat and post them in all their adorable glory?
If you look at my next “thing” post, you’ll understand why this block is under clear vinyl. Of course the colors look totally off in this photo! Ugh!!
This is an improvised log cabin quilt block that I made with various ribbons. It’s about 4 inches square. Not sure what I’ll do with it yet….probably add it to another project. The photo doesn’t do the nice bright colors justice.
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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