Friday, November 25, 2022

The Other 16 Patch - stripes and shots...............


It is a finished top, pressed and edge staystitched.  It is 63" x 81".  I'll be measuring the larger yardage pieces that I have of both stripes and the wavy ikat fabrics I showed a few days ago.  I will use them as backings on this series of yarn dyed woven fabric quilts.



I pulled sets of 3 strips and used over half of the 1.5" strips of Kaffe collective fabrics that were cut many years ago.  It will take awhile to sew all of them into units and then sew together with the striped strip.


This is the next quilt up on the design wall.  I showed the inspiration quilt on this post.  I cut the strips for it on Wednesday and cut the strips into squares yesterday.  The one in the book is on point and it is square.  Square quilts don't fit rectangular bodies in my opinion and to make it useful I needed to make the quilt rectangular.  It was too much of a mind bender to change the shape on the on point layout so I decided on straight rows.  This one looks pretty boring after all of the red, orange, and gold I have been working with.

10 comments:

stitchinpenny said...

Not boring to my eye. Love your color choices.

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

not boring to me either - I love the colors

Sue Vermeland said...

That last one is a soothing quilt. LOVE the colors...I also am loving the TAPAS project pic. You've got plenty of garden colors going there!

Anonymous said...

The red-orange quilt is great but I’d find it too challenging to live with every day. The green-blue one is so beautiful and calm, it’s more inspiring and practical for me

Florida Farm Girl said...

I don't care for square quilts either so I have to do adjusting like you. Your colors are wonderful.

JJM said...

You have taken your stripes and solids and turned them into happy fun pieces. I agree with others there is nothing boring with your blue/green piece. It has its own elegance.

JJM

Anne Ibach said...

Wanda; I LOVE that new quilt on the design wall!!! I know I don't have enough fabrics in those colors to make one. I might have to do a wilder version that uses more colors.

Vicki W said...

I don't think the new one looks boring at all! I also agree with you about square quilts. I'll make a square queen size quilt but smaller sizes need to fit a bed or body. Square ones seem pretty useless to me.

Unknown said...

I love snuggling under a square quilt…I just use it diagonally. A 60” square will give you about 85” from corner to opposite corner, plenty to tuck under my feet, cover my body generously, and fold over at the top to come up to my chin. This works especially well if I’m snuggled in my snoozing/reading chair.

Quiltdivajulie said...

The blue green quilt is not at all boring - green and blue together always make me think of blue skies and green grass/fields. And I also try to avoid square quilts. BTW - That finished top is gorgeous.