In the quest to find my flannels last week I just happened to throw my bag of green scraps on top of the bag of turquoise scraps...and boy, did the wheels start spinning! I had wanted to try one of these quilts ever since I saw it on Amanda Jean's blog months ago, and well, the color combination was just too enticing to resist.
Fortunately, my lack of impulse control is limited primarily to creative projects and not potentially detrimental things like, say, shopping or alcohol consumption.
Anyway, I followed her link to Lady Harvatine's tutorial and in an afternoon, this was born:
Making the individual units is very fun; forming them into the individual blocks is challenging. Putting it all together wasn't very pretty. Amanda warned that it was a hard one to piece, and she wasn't lyin'!
As a result, it finished a funny size (27" x 18"), which relegates it to wall hanging/table topper/doll quilt status, but I'm very glad I tried it. Most of my projects lately have been fairly traditional, and it feels good to bust out and do something freeform every once in a while!
After the intensity of my last project, I was most definitely not up to spending a lot of time quilting. I used Jacquie's straight line method, which was both fun and infinitely easier than what I'd just spent the week doing.
So two finishes, albeit smaller ones, that were technically both completed in January. The year started out unproductively but I think I'm back on track. And it feels good!
15 comments:
This is amazingly wonderful!! I just love it :)
~ Jennie
Kate, this is so very exuberant. I REALLY like it! Hard to put together, huh? Maybe I'll save it for a slow week!
Hi Kate, Your sister Heidi wrote a note in her Christmas card mentioning you had a blog---she knows I'm a quilter, new to reading blogs. (I knew Heidi and Dan from Yale days.) Love your blog, have learned so much from it!!
Jane at mccrthyj@gmail.com
It looks fantastic! What a great way to use up those little bits and pieces! Well done.
Really like this quilt and the freeform random design. I think the quilting lines are perfect for it too.
That is a fantastic finish!
Gosh - I love the back of the pieced top as much as the front. Maybe your next piece could just stitch down all those raw edges for a new look!
This is wonderful! It reminds me of sea glass, especially the first picture. I've always loved turquoise and green, which makes my daughter roll her eyes at me!
Anyway, this is great! I think the quilting suits the quilt well, and much easier, huh? I've been tempted to try this one too, but keep putting it off.
What a fresh and vivid quilt - I love the colour combination too!
Funny how coincidence makes some great choices for us, sometimes :)
I love this quilt! And the quilting. It would make a great doll quilt or table topper.
the quilting is perfect for this! i agree wholeheartedly with the reference to sea glass. beautiful job...btw...the binding is a great choice! ooh and my word verification is say chic...how perfect!
You may have been inspired by others but you have created something truly original. Your use of gray and banding each "glass" piece with darker hue makes it 3D and shine like light is coming through the glass.
So lovely! I have admired these snippets quilts for a long time - love how you have used a limited palette of blue and greens! Love the colors, the quilt and quilting! The first picture with the stained glass effect is gorgeous! Great idea for a curtain!
Very interesting quilt. I love it. It is an Art Quilt! A fun addition to any quilt collector.
I really like this! Actually, I found myself looking at *two* quilts, the wonderful finished one, but also the unfinished version. The light coming through gives it a stained glass quality, with the seams as leading, and it's pretty neat, too!
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