Random Acts of Blue is now complete!
And it turned out gorgeous! Oops, guess I'm keeping this one too!
The making of this quilt top was totally random, just so I could use up strip pieces. It was a huge exercise of free form piecing. What can I say, I do love a challenge!
Thank goodness the quilting wasn't as demanding as the piecing! Before I started any dense quilting, all the blocks were SID around the outside.
Then a pebble and S curve fill was quilted in all the white background.
I really wanted to practice motifs from Judi Madsen's book, Quilting Wide Open Spaces, (affiliate link) but just couldn't put butterflies on a quilt intended for a baby boy! Not until I got done quilting that I decided to keep it. Guess I could have done butterflies after all!
For each block center, I use a different design based on a seed motif. Here are some that I came up with, to guide me when quilting. Not all of them got used.
And finally, to finish off the blocks, double outlines around the pieced edges gave them some stitching but not so much that they
got lost.
Here are the rest of the blocks
If you look closely at these pictures, you'll notice the binding is not white all around.
Instead, it changes, depending on if there is a block at the edge. To see how I did this, check out my next post Pieced Binding and a Different Corner. Enjoy!
Happy Quilting!
Another finish this week, Solar Flare.
This another from Ricky Tims' Convergence Quilts, (affiliate link) my Book of the Month for November.
The first quilt I did was Pink Lattice,
and I had so much fun with that one that I made a second!
The fabric for Solar Flare had red, yellow and blue in it, and this was the perfect project for this piece.
I paired it with one red square and one blue, which gave the exploding look coming from the lower right.
At one point I wanted more yellow, and found a fabric that also had some red in it--perfect!
Cutting 1" strips, I inserted those in between each strip, both vertically and horizontally. Gave the quilt a bit of a 'looking through a lens' look.
This one has an all over design called Blast Off, of a rocket ship, star, and moon. That way, I can give it to a child.
And here's the back
If you haven't tried one of these convergence quilts, you should! They are super fun!
Happy Quilting!
My creations from the January Book of the Month, Bargello Quilts with a Twist (affiliate link) by Maggie Ball, are finished!
This one is Blue Bayou
and this one is Blue Blockus.
Since both of these are such busy quilts, they are quilted with all over pantograph designs.
Blue Bayou has a pattern called Sparkler
and here's the back for a better look.
I rather like this design; simple and makes a nice fill.
And for Blue Blockus, the pantograph is Passion Fruit, one of my favorites!
Love the swirls with the stars!
Happy Quilting!
