2020 Fabric Moratorium
07-28-2020, 07:53 AM
#791
Super Member
Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Portage, Michigan
Posts: 7,337
Found this UFO in a stray box in my sewing room. All scraps: top, batting and binding. Had to purchase backing but the left over back is enough for another small quilt, baby size. Saving those scraps of binding paid off!
07-28-2020, 10:03 AM
#792
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2019
Location: Ontario
Posts: 309
Irish, nice work on the baby quilt! Teach, I love scrappy surprise boxes, great job!
Last year Northcott had a program where participating stores designed and sold a block using the Stonehenge Solstice fabric line. It sounded like fun to explore a bunch of quilt shops within a 2 hour radius of my home and then try to come up with a quilt design using the various blocks. I picked up 12 different blocks and 4m of extra blender fabrics for finishing.
A few months ago I built the blocks in EQ and tried to come up with a design I liked but didn’t have much luck. Turns out I’m not a huge fan of samplers.
I then decided to make Bonnie Hunter’s Celtic Solstice but fabric considerations dictated a change in plans.
I cannot decide if I think the gradations in the fabric helped or hindered with this design. Overall I like it, but might have a problem finding a home for it due to the colour scheme.
Used almost all of the blender yardage and I am guessing about 2m from the block kits. A lot of small pieces remain from the block kits but I think I will be able to use it up as a setting for the panel I purchased.
Last year Northcott had a program where participating stores designed and sold a block using the Stonehenge Solstice fabric line. It sounded like fun to explore a bunch of quilt shops within a 2 hour radius of my home and then try to come up with a quilt design using the various blocks. I picked up 12 different blocks and 4m of extra blender fabrics for finishing.
A few months ago I built the blocks in EQ and tried to come up with a design I liked but didn’t have much luck. Turns out I’m not a huge fan of samplers.
I then decided to make Bonnie Hunter’s Celtic Solstice but fabric considerations dictated a change in plans.
I cannot decide if I think the gradations in the fabric helped or hindered with this design. Overall I like it, but might have a problem finding a home for it due to the colour scheme.
Used almost all of the blender yardage and I am guessing about 2m from the block kits. A lot of small pieces remain from the block kits but I think I will be able to use it up as a setting for the panel I purchased.
07-28-2020, 10:53 AM
#793
Senior Member
Join Date: Mar 2011
Location: Mostly Oklahoma (Army Brat)
Posts: 606
Originally Posted by Cattitude
Irish, nice work on the baby quilt! Teach, I love scrappy surprise boxes, great job!
Last year Northcott had a program where participating stores designed and sold a block using the Stonehenge Solstice fabric line. It sounded like fun to explore a bunch of quilt shops within a 2 hour radius of my home and then try to come up with a quilt design using the various blocks. I picked up 12 different blocks and 4m of extra blender fabrics for finishing.
A few months ago I built the blocks in EQ and tried to come up with a design I liked but didn’t have much luck. Turns out I’m not a huge fan of samplers.
I then decided to make Bonnie Hunter’s Celtic Solstice but fabric considerations dictated a change in plans.
I cannot decide if I think the gradations in the fabric helped or hindered with this design. Overall I like it, but might have a problem finding a home for it due to the colour scheme.
Used almost all of the blender yardage and I am guessing about 2m from the block kits. A lot of small pieces remain from the block kits but I think I will be able to use it up as a setting for the panel I purchased.
Last year Northcott had a program where participating stores designed and sold a block using the Stonehenge Solstice fabric line. It sounded like fun to explore a bunch of quilt shops within a 2 hour radius of my home and then try to come up with a quilt design using the various blocks. I picked up 12 different blocks and 4m of extra blender fabrics for finishing.
A few months ago I built the blocks in EQ and tried to come up with a design I liked but didn’t have much luck. Turns out I’m not a huge fan of samplers.
I then decided to make Bonnie Hunter’s Celtic Solstice but fabric considerations dictated a change in plans.
I cannot decide if I think the gradations in the fabric helped or hindered with this design. Overall I like it, but might have a problem finding a home for it due to the colour scheme.
Used almost all of the blender yardage and I am guessing about 2m from the block kits. A lot of small pieces remain from the block kits but I think I will be able to use it up as a setting for the panel I purchased.
Cat' You have gotta love Stonehenge. This turned out perfectly
. Colors or not, anyone will be proud to receive this. It just might make someone "change" their color scheme! 
07-29-2020, 06:14 AM
#799
Super Member
Join Date: Aug 2018
Location: Greater Peoria, IL -- just moved!
Posts: 6,042
Cattitude -- another vote on it's great!!
I'm not a big fan of sampler quilts either, or more specifically it doesn't seem to be something I'm good at, but I see what other people do and just love it. My brain just doesn't think well that way.
The way I work I usually make a few test blocks and/or deliberately make several more scrappy blocks than planned, just because sometimes blocks just don't play well together. I used to have problems then doing something with those blocks, and that's usually turned into giving them away -- but now more and more I put them on the back of my quilt.
I'm not a big fan of sampler quilts either, or more specifically it doesn't seem to be something I'm good at, but I see what other people do and just love it. My brain just doesn't think well that way.
The way I work I usually make a few test blocks and/or deliberately make several more scrappy blocks than planned, just because sometimes blocks just don't play well together. I used to have problems then doing something with those blocks, and that's usually turned into giving them away -- but now more and more I put them on the back of my quilt.
