We pick a project, one a month, and make it that month's goal to finish that project.
Well, I have a lot of projects hanging around, but I had to make this month's a brand new project. Our modern quilt guild is doing a challenge using Madrona Road fabrics and solids. We have until the end of the month to submit a project to the fabric company and until our meeting mid-February to share our project with the group. So, I started this yesterday afternoon. It took me quite a while of thinking about this because the colors didn't sing out to me at first, but I'm quite happy with where it's going. I'm thinking a smallish sofa quilt or largish wall quilt, however it turns out. I have much more I want to do with this, but I ran out of linen, and have no place to get it locally, so I'll be ordering it from somewhere if I can figure out what color it is. Argh.
I'm always amazed at how much "background" fabric piecing take and misjudge often which lead to improving and some of my favorite parts of a quilt are born. Your progress looks great.
ReplyDeleteThanks! For me this is one of the frustrating parts of winging it, not knowing how much I'll need and in this case, I could make it work with just a little more, I had already figured on doing a background with a different color, but I want the little squares surrounded by linen. I usually alternate "pattern" quilts with improv ones, just so about half the time I know ahead of time what I'll need.
DeleteFunny, I didn't recognize it as Madrona Road at first- even though your linen is the same color of background that I pulled to use with mine. I was looking at the black background shapes on the yellow floral and trying to figure out if they were cats! Kudos to you for starting now. Mine is still "in development!"
ReplyDeleteI agree it would kind of be cool if your new linen didn't quite match the old. Give it that "make do" look that makes the old quilts so interesting!
My sister thought those shapes looked like bats! :)
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