Time to Defrag Quilt
 

I had a jelly roll, matching charm pack and white yardage and made this fun little quilt. The point was to stretch myself and try to do something different. I made up all the printed blocks, then decided how big I wanted the quilt to be and made up enough white blocks the same way to have enough. Then I stitched 3 rows of printed blocks and two rows of white blocks. The rest I threw into a paper bag. I pulled them out one and a time and made rows. After all the rows were made, I put the color heavy rows on the bottom and the light white rows on the top. I call it "Time to Defrag". If you have ever defraged your computer you will see a similar pattern. But not near as colorful.[ATTACH=CONFIG]483892[/ATTACH] And yes, that's me holding it up.

oooo I love it!!!! My hubby is a computer geek and he sees this stiff all the time. That is a great idea!

Hah! Love it! I'm a computer geek AND a quilting geek so I love it times two!

Love it as I always enjoyed watching my computer defrag.

Very pretty and great idea.

haha, me too. It doesn't take much to capture my attention.

I love it!

Great quilt! I like how you did that

Very nice quilt. stretching yourself is a good thing, and look what it produced! Lovely.

I really like this quilt. You picked great colors! and perfect placement.

looks great to me!!

What a gorgeous quilt! I love the turquoise and white together. Great technique, too, to make it random yet balanced. Love the whole thing!

Wish I could say I chose the colors, they are from the Moda Sphere collection. It called my name in the store. Thanks for the compliments.

Great quilt with unusual inspiration! I really like it.

Very nice quilt.

how clever! great quilt and love your colors!

Nicely done. Love it.

Very cool! I have tried "random" in my jewelry making, but it was painful... I guess I have a symmetrical-yearning brain, lol. Same challenge with quilt patterns that suggest randomly choosing cut pieces. I love your quilt.

Wonderfully done!

I love the color combination you used. Great name !!

Very cleaver! Love it! Great name for it too!

Very nice quilt and interesting approach to designing, I may have to "borrow" your idea.

I certainly recognize defragging. Good quilt.

Great challenge.

I so love when a pattern (or a person) breaks away from the pack!

I love what you did with this one.

Y'all are welcome to make this quilt anytime! The hardest part was opening the jelly roll and charm pack. Here's how I did it. Open the jelly roll and charm pack and match up a strip to a square of the same pattern. Out of the pairs, you will get 6 6.5 strips and 2 2.5 squares. Cut the charm into 2.5 squares so you now have 6 outsides and 6 centers. Out of the single strips, you will get enough for 4 blocks and out of the single charms you will get 4 centers. Since no two jelly rolls and charms are the same, you never know what you are going to get. If you end up with not enough centers, cut some strips down. Of course, scramble the centers so you have different arrangements. Each block ends up 6.5 square but I cut mine down to 6 inches since, I am never perfect on seams. Then decide how large you want your quilt to be and make enough background blocks to finish the quilt. Sew together and you've got it. I liked 3 solid rows of color and two light rows of white on the top for the offsided effect. Picking random blocks out of the paper bag was fun since I knew I could rearrange the rows. Oh and if you alternate the seams across the blocks, you won't even have to match those. Have fun!

I like that !! Hmmm, maybe that's what I should do with those leftovers hiding in my stash bag?!! Thanks for showing this!

Nice job!!! It looks great!

Fun quilt! Great fabrics with the white. :)

Wonderful! This quilt is really nice. I'm a computer geek, and just love it!

Looks great....

Now that's very cool. You are sew creative!

I think that your quilt is wonderful

love the color drift--love your "undercover" portrait. your identity is safe, no matter what happens in the defragging!

What a great idea and a great quilt.

Very pretty, I like it a LOT.

Very cool!! Great idea for those who are computer geeks!!

Very very pretty !