Kitsapquilter

What if you used his design as just a block (maybe a 12 or 15 inch block)? Make the quilt as big as you want and perhaps use a sashing between each block? It would be easier to make a pattern for a block than a whole quilt. It is nice he could make you the drawing. I think it will be a very interesting quilt!

Kitsapquilter

Be sure to keep us up on what your doing with this. It will be quite an interesting project. Good luck to you. I am sure you will make it work!

GingerK

First clarify with him, if he wants the quilt to look JUST LIKE THAT, because those would be some huge blocks--only 6 for the whole quilt. If instead, he wants this block to be repeated in the quilt, introduce him to graph paper and get him to draw it out again. Then you can size your blocks more easily. I think this would be lovely with batiks or moda marbles and some sashing.

sarahrachel

Because he wants the entire quilt to look like that, I told him he could redesign it so it had HST or I could. He didn't want to do it so I came up with something last night on excel and showed him this morning. He said he'd prefer the original, but liked what I did so I'm going to use my design.

As for the big pieces, which are huge, some of them are at least 15 inches, I told him I'd see what I could do, But it might turn into a scrap quilt with each color block being a bunch of scraps of that color. Either that, or he was going to pay for the fabric :D

pollyjvan9

If you use different fabrics within a color family to make your blocks you could just strip piece it and I don't think it would be very difficult at all. Just keep the colors clear and with a good strong contrast. Will be a fantastic quilt and one he will love for life since his big sis put so much effort into it.

sarahrachel

he better love it or I'm taking it back! :D

Sierra

One of my grandsons was an exchange student when he was 14. I made him a quilt for his dorm bed at his new boarding school. The first thing he said when he got back was that he wanted to make a quilt with me, just to get back into his "real" life. He stayed with me for a week and we made a lap robe for his "other" grandfather who had suffered a stroke. It was wonderful working with him. I'm telling you this because you might really find it fun (and even enlightening) to make the quilt with your brother. You would set the limits and he obviously is capable of making the design. You could show him how the pieces go together (and you could do it together, perhaps). It could be a wonderful adventure and a wonderful memory you will share for the rest of your lives.

pocoellie

I also agree, paper piecing would be the way to go.

doowopddbop

It appears that he did use graph paper to draw out this quilt! Nice work! Just for fun, and because I love a challenge, I've drawn it up in my EQ program using his proportions. The block proportion is 18 squares wide, and 24 squares long without borders.

What size quilt does he want? For a queen-size quilt, if you use each square in his graph paper as 1" and enlarge it 400%, you'll have a quilt that measures 72" x 96" before the borders. And to keep the mitered borders in proportion, they'd be 4" for a total size of 80" x 104".

If he wants it for a lap/twin quilt, you'd enlarge the pieces by 300%, adding 3" borders, making the quilt 60" x 78".

I'd say he did a great job with scale, color, balance, creativity! I also tested it out using blocks (4 across, 4 down). I really like the look! The lap/twin size would be 3 x 3. These will be simple to make as a paper-pieced pattern. Let me know in a private message if I can help with that! ~Deonn

rainsprite

I guess my question is what size is the quilt to be? That would determine what size the blocks need to be and if you need to add a design row to either side of the center piece. By doing so the quilt becomes easier to manage and gives you the opportunity to add interest to what might be lost in huge sections of fabric. By adding two same design panels as center panels on either side could add symmetry and size without losing the great design. And yup, paper piece but could be done either way but paper piecing offers the precision. Hope this helps and looks to be a wonderful creative project. Thank you - more pics in future I hope.