The quilt that most caught my fancy in the new quilting magazine is here. I have a stack of fabrics in mostly-turquoise, with some bright yellowish-green and some yellow, that I had assembled from fat quarters I just "liked" - I think I picked them up at Quilt Asylum a while back.
I even have a piece of semi-solid turquoise - left from the most recent County Lines quilt (it was the backing) that is large enough do to the "color sashing" (the red in the pictured quilt).
I would need to get some kind of large piece of solid color to use for the main background. I'm thinking white would probably be best. Or possibly a pale, pale yellow. What I might do is stitch up the rows of patterned fabric and then take them down to the local quilt shop and try them out against various solids (and marbles; they have most of the Moda Marbles there, I think)
I also really like the Lincoln's Platform pattern and think I will eventually pull out some of the reproduction Civil War-era fabrics I have and make one of those.
Of course, first I need to finish the Hill Country Spring quilt top. But I'm thinking if I can maybe break away early enough today, I might feel like working on that.
2 comments:
I especially like the second one. Simple but interesting.
I like simple patterns because cutting and piecing are not my favorite parts of quilting. Sometimes that makes me feel sort of like I'm being lazy - like I won't be a "real" quilter until I do some more complicated patterns.
Those two are nice; the more straightforward pattern really lets interesting fabrics shine.
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