I made a 4PP out of a floral print with a 27" repeat. I did not realize that the pattern itself was twisted within this repeat and ended up with quite similar looking patches.
Did anyone try it with a Kaffee Fassett print or has a suggestion for the ultimate fabric for a 4PP??

Was a lot of fun making it and I think it is a great pattern for a fast gift.
Mine turned out a bit dull and is used as cathair catcher on the sofa :oops:
Granny

What do you mean dull. I think that it is lovely. Have not done this pattern looks hard. Don't care if blocks are similar. quilt looks REAL GOOD to me. I think that I just may have to do this one soon. When you say fast, how fast did you mean? BrendaK

I`d say it a weekend quilt.........
All you have to do is putting four repeats of the fabric carefully on top of each other and cut patches the size you like.
Then you arrange the four similar patches and sew them together, sashing, border, finished :lol:
It is really fun to do but I had a hard time to figure out a perfect fabric for it.

I love it!! You have a good variety of blocks IMHO :D:D:D

Beautiful!

I think it is beautiful...you did a wonderful job. The Kaffee Fassett fabric is simply delicious.

I think it's very elegant-looking. The blocks are subtle but interesting enough to make this a beautiful quilt. Re the 'perfect fabric', I'd say the criteria are a longish repeat (over 12") a large print, a limited colour palette and swirls in the pattern rather than straight lines. I'd say your fabric fulfilled all those criteria! And the alternate light and dark sashing set it off a treat AND your FMQ is fabulous. :-D

PS What you say about the pattern 'twisting', do you mean that the repeat across the width, ie selvage to selvage, was uniform? This sometimes happens and if you want to vary the blocks up a little, you can, after cutting blocks across the strips up to the point where you reach the same repeat, take a little slice out of the stack, say 1", just to move you along the repeat slightly. This should give more variation. Just for future reference. Though what you've made here is beautiful. :-D

Very nice!

This is not from a Kaffee Fassett. I would like to see one that was made out of a Kaffee Fassett print.

Yes I mean a repeat in the width. It was twisted but if you cut it apart its looks the same......... At the time I realized it I made this cutting away of an inch but it did not make a great differenz.

You can also turn the square patches around to vary things up a little - it can be amazing how much difference this makes. :-D

WOW! :-D Beautiful!

That is beautiful - it is NOT dull and IMHO too nice for the cats :lol: .

I imagine the larger the print and the more colors in the fabric - the greatest variation in blocks. I think your variation is good and the quilting looks very nice!!

A great success! Very attractive and not at all dull!

I like it. :) I think it looks super pretty!

This is simply lovely ----- you can see the time involved in it and the colors are so warm. You can certainly be proud of this one!!! Your FMQ is delightful -------- this is "practice"?

Your quilt is far from dull and certainly does not warrant being a cat hair catcher.

It's actually quite spectacular and your choice of the pink/burgundy borders on the blocks make them all stand out to make a stunning quilt.

The two suggestions of taking an inch or two slice off to vary the pattern is a good one. Also, twist the blocks around for different points to the centre. With it being square if you have matched sets, that way you can actually make four different kaleido blocks! :)

I did that with twisting the four patches in different directions. But since there was a lot of plain background in the print I was limited with that too.
As you can see in the four corner blocks there was no way to assemble them in a different way otherwise I would have ended up with a plain center.

Even with all that "experience" I am not able to come up with the ultimate fabric for a 4 PP and I wonder how one with Kaffee Fassett fabric would look like

i don't think it's dull at all. it's beautiful. nicely done :thumbup:

It's not dull, it's "subtle"! :D I think it's a lovely version of that pattern, and the color palette is gorgeous (and I'm not much of a "pink" person).

This is so beautiful! I don't think it is dull at all.

I love it & its Beautiful Barb

It is a very pretty quilt. Not dull at all

You quilt is certainly not dull...it is beautiful....I love the colors.

Surely you jest...cat hair catcher!?
It is a beautiful quilt.
I just struggled with the same design and I thought my fabric was much too busy, but thanks to the encouragement of the board I finished it and I love it. It is still too busy for a 4pp, but like yours it turned out well. I do have to say that yours reads better than mine and it reads well as a 4pp. Wonderful job.

I don't know what a 4 PP is? I think the blocks look like stack and whacks. . . .

I am not a great fan of Kafe Fassett so probably not the best person to give an opinion. I have not made a 4PP, OBW or stack n whack of any kind with any of his fabric BUT my instinct would be that his designs are too busy for this, too much scattered colour. The thing with using a limited colour palette, ie 3 or 4 colours maximum, is that in these fabrics, the colours tend to be distributed across the pattern, So if you have a fabric that is only purple, green and cream for example you will get blocks that are mostly purple, blocks mostly green and blocks mostly cream, giving you lots of variation and design interest, If you have a very busy multi-coloured fabric, the multicolours tend to show up in every block, giving less variation. I hope that's clear. My favourite fabrics for stack n whack, 4PP, OBW etc are the Asians - long repeats, striking but limited colours and lots of swirls. :-D

I think it's lovely.

I think it's lovely.

Yes, elegant is the word I was searching for. :thumbup:

Beautiful quilt, patterns and colors. Beautiful quilting too. Great job.

Pretty - like the alternate light and dark framing of each block.

4PP = Four Patch Posie
and yes, it's a four piece version of a SAW

OBW = One Block Wonder
You cut six layers of triangles and sew them together as hexes

SAW = Stack and Whack
On this Board it's usually referred to as the 8 piece octagons.
Although all of these are really SAWs!

Very pretty!

Really pretty. If your chair does not like it... I know where it can get a new home!!!! lol

Beautiful.

I really like it.

I don't think it would look dull in my house, it must be yur lighting.

Very Pretty.

I think it turned out beautiful. Love the pattern