The other day I finally returned to a fabric shop in Pine Grove Mills, PA for shopping her unique and fun quilt fabrics. I went to look and buy a little but of course left the store with LOTS OF FABRIC!! I also bought a new cutting pad from a company she swears by which I haven’t yet tried. My cutting boards have a life of about one year. Can’t wait to pick this up and start using it.
One of the fabrics I bought was a beautiful floral print with rust, yellow and maroon reds in it. These are often my favorite colors (being as I am a “fall” color person). I love unique florals for abstract quilts and for splashes of color in tree and landscape quilts. The quilt shown is 22.5″W x 25″H.
The photo with this blog is the first quilt I created with this unique floral fabric. A print like this is fun because it gives you the colors for the rest of the quilt. I used some of my most enjoyable free motion stitch designs to stitch the different curved pieces, keeping the stitch design consistent for the different fabrics (If a color appeared three times, I did the same quilt stitching for each piece of that fabric). This layered design needs careful planning and lots of photos as I tried different approaches before starting the piecing. There is a lot of cutting into pieces you add earlier as the layering design builds.
I went completely out of my comfort zone and bound this quilt with a gold batik. I would typically bind with dark fabric but I really liked the way the gold pulled out the gold/yellow in the quilt.
You have an eye for color!