In a small group that I belong to....(there are only 4 of us)...we decided to make blocks from Tula Pink's 100 Modern Quilt Blocks.....I had a collection of fabrics in browns & aqua - with numbers and words and thought they would work for this. (Elementary by Sweetwater).
I loved the idea of the Skyline quilt in the book - but really did not need any more huge quilts...so I worked out the size I wanted and worked out how many blocks to make.
These blocks are so easy - I could get through about 4 in a night - cutting and sewing (TV must have been pretty bad at the time) and I did minimise how many half square triangle blocks I did.
I wanted the quilt to look like a city skyline so I selected blocks for the top of each column to look like the top of office buildings - lightning conductors, air conditioning units etc. Other than planning that I just made blocks. I was able to organise them by colour groupings without any re-makes...that was a fluke.
I found the background (a wideback fabric) and cut the strips for in between and above the buildings and the side borders. I quilted down each seam, vertically between the seams, across some seams horizontally, then I added machine embroidered stars and the moon - a lucky find to get a bali that looks just like the moon (I think).
This was Project #12 for the Sunday Stitchers' Challenge...and it was partially completed on time... Happy to say it is all done now.
Last Sunday - at Sunday Stitchers - I took along my Project #12.
I wasn't able to get it finished in time..there has been a lot happening...but when this number was drawn out last month - I had a top with no side borders. So I have managed to add the borders, pin it, quilt the vertical lines and most of the horizontal lines (apart from where I want it to be the aqua thread), bound it and have started to fill in the night sky with stars.
I want to add a moon and many more stars, but a few people have commented on it and I thought I'd show you the "in progress" shots.
The quilt is based on a pattern in Tula Pink's 100 Modern Quilt Blocks book. I've adapted it to fit existing hangers and spaces on my walls.
a sample of the night time stars....many more to be added....
Not great photos - I will get better ones when I'm finished.
I bought this book - along with friends Maureen & Inca and another new friend Sue. We decided we would each make our own version of a quilt using the blocks.
I am working on mine - not ready to show it yet...but I decided to participate in the Queensland Quilters Challenge this year, so used the patterns in the book to create my quilt.
The block patterns are very simple - you can whizz through quite a few in a night...that was some of the reason I chose to use them...very time poor at the moment....
