Infinite Fun - Improv Curves Quilt
My friend Brenda over at Pink Castle Fabrics recently handed me a stack of fabric and asked me to play with it and make a bit of something that she could hang in her shop for a while.
What fabrics, you ask?
First of Infinity from Lecien--so dreamy. These fabrics should be available in the US sometime this month or next; if you go to Pink Castle's website, you can sign up for an email when the fabric line is stocked.
I was so excited to play with the fabric--it is such a wonderful combination of pretty and modern. And I got doubly-pumped and super-on-board when I learned that both Pink Castle and Lecien were okay with me mixing the fabrics with other lines (I'm a mixer, through-and-through) and that they didn't mind what kind of quilt I made. Just show the fabrics being used. Yes!
After giving the First of Infinity fabrics a good petting, I pulled a bunch of fabrics from my stash and scraps from my scrap pile. The above shot is just a bit of that process, with the First of Infinity fabrics on the left-hand side and bits from my stash through the center and to the right. The selections were pared down from here to a more limited palette, but you can see the basis of what I'm doing--using only some of the First of Infinity fabrics--the ones with black (not navy) and the ones with the cool colors and the peaches. These are the prints from First of Infinity that I'm using in this quilt--I have a panel of each:
The stash pull is mostly in the same color range--mostly low volume prints, some grays, some citron, and some dusty pastel teals. And I've been sneaking in a bit of magenta and a tiny bit of orange for fun.
I'm doing these quarter-square improv blocks
These blocks are based on "Drunkard's Path," a traditional block, but I'm doing it my way--improv and in varied sizes and laid out all crazy-like. No pins, no swearing, no crying.
The constrained color palette with slight interruptions is working for me...
And the quilt is coming together...
Time to sew up a storm. :-)
What fabrics, you ask?
First of Infinity from Lecien--so dreamy. These fabrics should be available in the US sometime this month or next; if you go to Pink Castle's website, you can sign up for an email when the fabric line is stocked.
I was so excited to play with the fabric--it is such a wonderful combination of pretty and modern. And I got doubly-pumped and super-on-board when I learned that both Pink Castle and Lecien were okay with me mixing the fabrics with other lines (I'm a mixer, through-and-through) and that they didn't mind what kind of quilt I made. Just show the fabrics being used. Yes!
After giving the First of Infinity fabrics a good petting, I pulled a bunch of fabrics from my stash and scraps from my scrap pile. The above shot is just a bit of that process, with the First of Infinity fabrics on the left-hand side and bits from my stash through the center and to the right. The selections were pared down from here to a more limited palette, but you can see the basis of what I'm doing--using only some of the First of Infinity fabrics--the ones with black (not navy) and the ones with the cool colors and the peaches. These are the prints from First of Infinity that I'm using in this quilt--I have a panel of each:
The stash pull is mostly in the same color range--mostly low volume prints, some grays, some citron, and some dusty pastel teals. And I've been sneaking in a bit of magenta and a tiny bit of orange for fun.
I'm doing these quarter-square improv blocks
These blocks are based on "Drunkard's Path," a traditional block, but I'm doing it my way--improv and in varied sizes and laid out all crazy-like. No pins, no swearing, no crying.
The constrained color palette with slight interruptions is working for me...
And the quilt is coming together...
Time to sew up a storm. :-)