CMYK Quilt

One of my English professors once gave us an assignment to describe the room

 without using any verbs. Let's see if I can describe this quilt verblessly. 

Ink colors... cyan, magenta, yellow, and black (or key)... CMYK

  Four strips of bold color and two panels of gray.

Each the width of the fabric, approximately 42 inches.

Easy piecing. Straight line quilting - vertical and diagonal.

Black binding. 

 

Matching Thread

 

Lovely!

Fun and Easy!

For sale on Etsy....

http://www.etsy.com/listing/84737531/cmyk-modern-baby-quilt-or-table-topper

Ruby Quilt

This was my weekend project. Started on it Friday afternoon and finished putting the binding on it at 10pm on Sunday, right as the New Orleans Saints were winning big on Sunday Night Football. It could be used for a baby quilt or a table topper.

I didn't use a pattern... just made it up as I went.

Supplies needed

One Moda charm pack - I used Ruby, but any one will do

One yard - solid white cotton fabric for sashing

One yard - solid red cotton fabric for inside border and binding

3 yards - matching fabric for wide floral border and backing

Other items - cotton batting, sewing thread for piecing,

machine embroidery thread for quilting

I was worried about the thread since I was stuck at home and couldn't go to the store. My car is still in the shop being repaired after a little fender bender. I didn't have enough of any coordinating color thread like I usually use for the quilting so I used machine embroidery thread. It's finer and shinier and worked just fine. I even ran the quilt through the washer and drier after I finished it to make sure everything held up.... and it did. Now that I know about the embroidery thread, I have a whole other stash I can use and just about every color I will ever need. Lord knows I'm not doing much embroidery these days.

 

 

Same pattern, different colors

I've made a quilt with this pattern before and it turned out so beautiful that I just had to do it again. The first one was made with the most boring of all the colors in my batik stash.... brown, grey, gold, black, a little dark blue. Not that they were ugly, just not as bright as the others. It's for my son and I didn't want it to look girlie.

This time it's bright and cheery colors. Aqua, blue, green, magenta, purple.

First thing first..... cut fabric into 2.5 inch strips.

 

Celebrate the end of strip cutting by oohhing and ahhing, petting, fanning,

and maybe posting some pictures on facebook for your friends to see

what you're up to.

Next.... cutting strips into 2.5 x 6.5 inch pieces and 2.5 x 2.5 inch squares.

More oohhing and ahhing!

 

Now for the sewing! I started by sewing the little square pieces together first,

chain piecing to save on thread, then sewed the longer pieces to each side

to make the blocks. I pressed each seam as I went.

Q: What is chain piecing? A: Sewing two pieces together, then without lifting the

presser foot or cutting the thread, sew the next two pieces.

This take a little organization so as not to sew the wrong pieces together.

 

The blocks are all made. Ready for tomorrow's sewing session 

I need a break :-)

 

With scrappy quilts, some people prefer to just start sewing the blocks together

randomly, but I like to lay them all out and rearrange them until I don't see two of the

same color next to each other. I usually start with the boldest or darkest color and

spread them out in the design so the eye will jump around the quilt to each one.

 

Sew the blocks into rows.....

Then sew the rows together, matching up the seams so the corners all

meet perfectly. Well, okay, get them as perfect as possible. If they are off

by too much, your quilt edges will not be straight. I like mine perfect because

I am not friends with my seam ripper.

And it's done ! ! ! Ready for quilting.

Here's the link to the other one I made with this pattern.

I hope you are inspired ! !

http://charmpacksplus.blogspot.com/2011/04/batik-quilt-square-in-square.html