Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Borders and Scripes Update - Piecing Done...


I am loving the colors on this quilt :).  Here's closeup shot of my progress so far. 

IMG_4151
Does this fabric look familiar?  It's the Bryant Park one that I cut up into long strips. 

The main color border has a nice shade of brown in it so I wanted to continue bringing that color into the rest of the quilt, so I decided on a nice dark brown Moda color strip right next to it.  Next to that I went with a green/mustard color to contrast most the previous colors.  Next a beige solid.  To contrast that beige I went with another Bryant Park fabric that uses some of the same design elements as the main fabric strip.  Next beige again, the back to the green/mustard, then repeat the solid brown Moda again.  Repeat again ending with the solid brown.

I pinned 2 strips together at a time, sew, then pin with another sewn strip.  I repeat this process for the whole quilt. 
IMG_4094
Here's a picture of 2 strips being pinned together.  Once this one is sewn then I move on to another 2 strips, pin and sew those together.  Then pin and sew with the first to sewn strips. 

And the result?  See for yourself.
IMG_4152
I couldn't get the whole quilt in the picture at this time 'cause of space restraints.  But you could get a good feel for the quilt in the picture above.  The completed quilt will be about 74"x80".  


Another view of the quilt top so far:

IMG_4153
Some of the strips got wrinkled during the piecing process, but some nice pressing next will get rid of those pesky wrinkles.

Yeah!  Another Weekly Goal completed!

Monday, May 3, 2010

Borders and Scripes - Design & Piecing


Remember this fabric that I posted a while back?

IMG_3874
Strips that I cut up a little while back.

Well, I finally got around to making a pattern for it :).  I decided to use the strips on the left side in the photo above - the one without the brown order attached.  There's 4 strips, but I'm only going to use 3 for the next quilt.  The pattern's goal was the maximize the great design of these strips of fabric.  So I decided to design something that wouldn't involve having to cut up the strips.
 
Here's the design front of the quilt:
Borders and Stripes
The blue in the design (or B) will be will the border strips are going to be.  The dark brown and green are also patterned fabrics.  The beige and lighter brown will be solid colors.  The dotted lines is where I'm planning to do some decorative hand quilting.

So, I decided to take the length of the fabric - 75" - and make it the width of the new quilt.  This way I don't have to sacrifice any of the length.  The completed quilt will be 74"x80".

This will be the quilt back:
Borders and Stripes Back
I thought about using the 4th strip of the border fabric for the back, but decided against it last minute.  I didn't want the back to distract from the front any. So I repeated the solid beige and lighter brown color for the back of the quilt - alternating.  This picture make the back look bigger than the front, but trust me it's the same height and width.


The Borders and Stripes stack all ready for piecing:
I always live the look of the fabric after it's been cut - ready for piecing :).


I can't wait to start on this quilt.  I'm a sucker for earth tones and I love the look of this border.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Weekly Goals: April 28 - May 9 (UPDATE)


Weekly Goals:
  • Baby Rose design *.pdf completed and posted 
                    COMPLETED


                   IMG_3305


  • Completed log for Extended Checkered 
                 COMPLETED

                    IMG_4088
  • Hand bind Scrappy Pillow #1
               IN PROGRESS
  • Make pillow fill for Scrappy Pillows #1
              NOT STARTED
  • Assemble pillow bottom & zippers for Scrappy Pillow #1 2 (typo in original post)
              NOT STARTED
  • Borders and Stripes cutting and piecing (design and post to come) 
               IN PROGRESS
  • Finish Sandwich and basting for Modded (brown) 
               IN PROGRESS
  • Update Current Projects and Finished Projects lists 
              COMPLETED


7 more days to complete this week's Weekly Goals. BTW, I'm not going to be available to work on any projects May 6-8 because I'll be out of town. So, it's more like 4 days... yikes.

LinkWithin

Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger...