One of our customers asked for a Queen Size quilt in summery colours of blue, pink and green. It has to measure around 95 x 80, which is large but not daunting. I immediately thought of one of my UFOs, a tumbler quilt of my pretty fabrics. Unfortunately I'd included a lot of brown in the bit I'd already made, so it was back to the cutting table to amass a lot of clear pretty shapes.
I seemed to cut for days, and then spent ages at the design wall, arranging pieces exactly so. It's so much fun to work with these fabrics, I'm really enjoying it, and it puts me in a good mood.
It's so annoying though, when I agonize over each piece and get it all juuuuust right, and then I go and sew things out of order. I added a row to the top of another one instead below it. Really? But I didn't unpick it because it looked fine, and I just had to spend a bit of extra time blending the new arrangement.
This is 12 of 18 rows, so I'm nearing the end.
I've added the darker shapes for the next 4 rows, and I quite like the effect of an alternating plain block, in dark or light, That's just the colour of my design wall showing through, but a pretty tone on tone in white or cream would really pad out the pretty fabric. Something to think of for the next quilt....
I'm going through my border stripes to see if anything suits it, I think it would look pretty special with a large floral border.
I don't know if this is what the customer had in mind, but I'm perfectly happy to keep it if it doesn't sell. There are some delicious fabrics in here.
4 comments:
Looks great,what size tumblers are they, did you use the Go cutter?
You have a nice collection of flowery style fabrics. I don't have much of those in my stash.
I've been collecting some of those colors for awhile. It's lovely to see how well yours blends so beautifully. Thanks for sharing.
That is so pretty, reminds me of the style of the ‘Jane Austen’ quilts.
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