Dylan's quilt started with three little fat quarters that i bought a few years ago. The multicolor print is from a 2016 collection. They sat project less but together on the shelf.
The instructions for this quilt has 6 fabrics in various quantities... although none of them seemed to be fat quarters.
Undeterred I added more and more stash fabric... building on the colours from the multicolour print and expanding the range to bridge the gaps between differences in quantities.
Some block arrangements just set off the fabrics perfectly.
The neutrals play nicely with the mix of different sized prints and depth of colour.
Although I got to the stage where I just didn't have enough fabric to stick to the diagram... so I winged it with some multicolor blocks... and ended up switching a couple of blocks around to make things balanced but it is looking great. I also had to sew together some offcuts to make units big enough.
The last fabric addition was this teal fish fabric... the occasional orange fish means it just makes sense with the solid jade and the orange dot.
So now it is just pedal to the metal...
Meanwhile Nadias quilt is slowly growing...
3 comments:
Like wine and cheese, good things take time.
These are both looking great! I think any 'winging it' seems to make it more you, and I love the pic with your toes!
So are the kids getting new quilts for Christmas?
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