A Dash of Lime
March 12, 2007 5:30PM | Filed Under Cot Quilts |
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The ants stayed away overnight leaving my cutting board clear of debris and ready for me to get stuck into a new quilt. Two friends from university days are expecting new additions to their families later in June/July so some baby quilts are in order. Following on from the success of the Pohutukawa Quilt, I thought I would try a similar quilt in limes and purples with orange complementary highlights. Here’s a progress shot:
Are you piecing those curves or fusing?
Comment by paula, the quilter — March 12, 2007 11:16 PM#
I am always interested in the way you work, in that you don’t seem to start at the top corner and produce blocks in neat rows or to produce blocks and then put then in an order. Fancy bloging about your process?
Comment by Helen — March 13, 2007 1:16 AM#
very cute! I like it with the white background from your design board — are you thinking about keeping those spaces in the final layout?
Comment by floribunda — March 13, 2007 4:11 AM#
This quilt is pieced from quarter circles using freeform cutting - a technique that I cover (amongst others) in my Serendipity Circles workshop. I’ll be making a few more blocks today and playing with layouts and borders but the white spaces scream “look at me” and will probably be filled in.
Comment by Brenda — March 13, 2007 8:10 AM#
[...] My latest cot quilt is coming along nicely: In response to Helen’s comment, when I am making these kind of quilts I make up batches of units and plonk them on the design wall as I go. These particular quarter circle units are made in pairs of positive and negative units. Accordingly, to ensure that colours and fabrics are scattered evenly across the quilt top, I don’t arrange the units in orderly rows from the outset. As I create more units, I take the opportunity to move them around until I like the effect. I also often take photos of different layout options and audition them before I commit to sewing seams to make larger blocks. (Photos are also handy when the units fall down or I lose track of the sewing order. For other handy uses of a digital camera in quiltmaking, see this post.) [...]
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