raptureready

Thank you. I fell in love with this shape of this pattern when I saw it. However I did NOT like the way their's was put together. It's really, really, scrappy with absolutely no unity to the blocks. I put the picture of it on my light box, traced it, copied it several times and let my daughter color them. This is close to what she came up with. Being an artist also, I loved the idea of the frames.

POosterman

Absolutely beautious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

Quilt Mom

'Frames' is amazing! I love the way the colors work together.

thequilterslink

WOW that is a beautiful quilt.

WLee

Great idea! I've just begun organizing and pressing my scraps and 5" and 6" squares! It seems neverending! The only problem is that I've dedicated this year to finishing UFO's! (Fifteen, to be exact, and that isn't all of them!) But, there's always next year!! Cheers! WLee

Gerbie

It is either the Quilt Ghost or the Quilt Fairy refurbishing you scrap box, to keep you quilting. LOL Gerbie

Connie Hadba

Raptureready,
Where did you get the pattern for your beautiful quilt? Is it available online? I have no quilt shops in Lebanon but would love to get this pattern.

I love the way you have organized the colors for this quilt. You are a true artist.

Connie

raptureready

It's available through Clothilde and it's called Sunset. However, I didn't like that one, it wasn't big enough and I wanted my different so I made up my own dimensions and cutting instructions. Plus I wanted my frames to match up.
Here's mine:
White: 3 1/2" sqs and strips 3 1/2"x 7 1/2"
colors are cut 2" x width of fabric and sewn together
Then they are cut 3 1/2x 6 1/2 and 3 1/2x12 1/2
then I squared the blocks up with a 16 1/2" square ruler

Since I was using from my stash, I really didn't know how much to cut so I have enough colored 2" strips to do a rail fence and maybe even another quilt but that's okay by me. All of this fabric came from my stash so I don't know what to tell you if you are a person that only buys just what they are going to use. That's also the reason for the pieced border. It wasn't planned but I like it.
I really can't stress enough the need for a layout board with this quilt. I put a 20" square board on an easel right by my chair. I sewed the block together as I went keeping the previous one and the one above the block being worked on right there so that I could get the layout right. Also, unfortunately pinning was, for me, another necessity. Since I am relatively new to quilting (just a couple of years) I will admit that this was one of the more challenging quilt tops I've done.
Hope this helps, feel free to pm me if you have anymore questions and be sure to post pictures of your own variation.
Several people have emailed me about this quilt top and I feel very honored that so many of you like it.

raptureready

Ooops I forgot to tell you something. I printed the picture, put in on a light board, traced the outlines, printed off a few copies and let my daughter color them. I can't take full credit for this because she's the one that came up with the darks on the inside. On one of her colorings she also used black for the 3 1/2" squares which would have made an interesting sub-pattern.

Gerbie

Fantastic, It seems so simple yet so elegant. A Beautiful quilt, to be proud of!!!