At Quilt Market Sample Spree, I was lucky to get a chance to buy three upcoming lines: Heather Ross's Tiger Lily, Kim Kight's Lucky Strikes, and Lotta Jansdotter's Lucky. Once back to my room that night, I opened up the bundles and played with the fabrics, noticing that parts of each line played very nicely together.
Back home from Minnesota, I pulled out the fabrics again and added to them from my stash.
I wanted to sew with them RIGHT THEN. So I started cutting and arranging pieces on my design wall. This design began from my love of the "vee" shaped traditional 4-patch that's in so many quilts, but used so effectively in Digital Hearts from Cloud Nine and Fair Isle from Just a Bit Frayed.
I did my own spin, wanting the vees to go UP and also be grounded and show off more fabric, by putting in a bigger square beneath.
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Once I had a few on the design wall with white as the background, I realized I needed a better neutral, and so I broke out my solids color cards, eventually selecting Seafoam Green by RJR Fabrics.
This quilt really started to pop for me once I added that seafoam green.
It went together in no time.
