Hope you are too!
This is what I've been working on when I have been sewing.
It's my first time working with black and white for a quilt and to be honest, I found it a little challenging to choose fabrics I liked. I do love the polka dots and the fireworks though! I picked these up at my local quilt shop and they are almost all Benartex.
This is for a commissioned quilt - a black and white one with splashes of lime green (Bella Solids Lime.) I perused Flickr for some inspiration and found this quilt to be inspiring.
After reading Rossie's post on the importance of sharing the process, I thought that is just what I should do.
I start with a sketch.
(It doesn't always end up like the sketch but it is a good beginning.)
I cut the fabric for the middle squares, 6 green and 6 black and white, and jumped in from there. Originally I was going to use the Metro Living Circles in lime green for the centers but I decided that was too busy.
I used my 6.5" square up ruler to help determine how big to cut the strips.
The inner blocks are 6.5" and the finished blocks are 10."
After working on them and putting them up on my design wall, I see that I need to add three more on the bottom to make the quilt larger.
So more cutting and sewing this weekend. Hopefully all the blocks will get finished and the quilt top will come together.
How do you plan out your quilts?
17 comments:
Cool quilt!
My planning looks a lot like yours. But for the last year I have been using a blank, bound book. I found I like to keep my sketches, plans....making notes as I actually sew them up.
I love the colours of the quilt. I made a black and white one for a friend and it was one of the best looking ones I have done (even if I do say so myself :-))
It's going to be a stunning quilt x
I really like this quilt and the colors and the blocks you chose.
Gorgeous!! I absolutely love the b&w with a splash of green! It's fabulous! :)
My process is a lot like yours. I use graft paper. When I dont use a pattern I call it giving birth to a quillt. I really love designing
a quilt. I love yours. The black and white is really popular right now.
I pretty much do it the same. When I have idea for any sewing project I pull out my note book and draw a piture. Sometimes it stops there and sometimes not depending on how complicated the design. I do like to fly by the seat of my pants a lot of the time though.
The quilt looks great! I love the pop of color. I have a stack of black and white fabrics that I am trying to figure something out for...we'll see what I come up with!
Good process post! Honestly, I seem to make my quilts in my head and never put them on paper or in computer mock-ups unless required. Perhaps I should try sketching...
Lovely fabrics and colours - great blocks ready to make a great quilt!
The one quilt I designed (which is still in progress) is only my third quilt and has come about as a series of "what next?" decisions.
Firstly my teacher asked me to start soemthing new because the quilt I brought to the workshop had no new techniques to be learnt. I had to choose something (applique houses) and fabric on the spot! When I got home I realised the fabric I had chosen was too dark. So I bought light fabric and made alternating light and dark blocks.
Every decision has been like that: what will I do about this? It's possibly the most unplanned project ever!
So glad you shared this quilt. I have to make a quilt for a wedding gift and they want black, white, and kelly green. Now I am inspired. Thank you.
Ooh that looks so fun!
The ideas for some quilts are flowing right now...one is sketched on scrap paper, one is just an idea and another is colorized on the computer.
The complete process for quilts would be an idea, a sketch, colorize, cut and quilt...but for smaller projects its usually sketching/commenting while cutting and sewing!
Love love love these blocks, the lime green is a perfect contrast and it's so striking. I tend to get ideas for quilts when I'm sitting in boring meetings at work and doodle them on my notepad or diary. I usually transfer them to a small notebook I keep in my handbag for ideas when I get back to my desk. Then at home I have a big spiral bound notebook where I sketch out and work out measurements etc and note down what I do as I go along. For smaller projects I tend to make it up as I go along which means I find it hard to make the same thing a 2nd time!
I LOVE it!!! I made a black and white one with red, but was much more structured with mine-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bubbles-135/3127792650/in/photostream
Yours will be lovely
I love this Jennifer! Great job and good for you being able to sketch it our ahead of time. I am usually improvisational....I just kind of go with my feelings as it begins to grow! This quilt will be stunning!
Sometimes I have a photo, and that is my inspiration, and I sketch it out only in my mind. I seem to be in a hurry to get to some actual sewing with the fabrics. I start with a measurement of one of the pieces, and go from there. I like to not know what my finished block is going to be until it is finished! Sometimes I'm more structured though.
I'm supposed to do a black and white with one color for a challenge. I like your inspiration quilt.
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