I had Tuesday off from work, so I planned for Tuesday to be a sewing day. I thought I’d buckle down and work on the November’s sewing commitment.
Yeah, not so much.
I let myself get psyched out by it again, and instead decided on some easy piecing. Over the course of the day, with several breaks for meals, kiddo time, and napping, I put together a crib sized quilt top.
I used my pre-cut scraps stash, diving into my neutrals bucket and using a good portion of the 2.5″ squares. I also used more of the Cotton & Steel Peacock solid fabric. Eventually, I’ll use up the entirety of the six yards I bought.
The quilt top measures 40″ X 40″ (finished), and should be a breeze to quilt. I figure I’ll do straight line quilting, to keep it simple, and manageable on my domestic machine.
Apparently, this particular pattern ( a riff of the Made in Cherry pattern by Sarah Fielke) is going to be a go-to pattern for me. It’s a riff, because the original pattern called for charm squares. In addition to using 5″ squares, I’ve previously made this with 3″ squares. The 3″ squares make for a quilt top that finishes at about 50″ X 50″.
Of course, it helps that I can throw one of these babies together with very little math, and a whole lot of variation, depending on the fabrics used.
Linking to Freshly Pieced WIP Wednesday.
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I like it. The contrast between the star and the background really works well and has a good balance.
This particular color scheme has been bothering me since I got the solid fabric. At least it’s sort of out of my system.
Procrasti-piecing–I know it well! Lovely star.
Procrasti-piecing – I love it! I’ll have to remember that for the future.
It’s lovely. Haven’t made one of these in years! You have inspired me ; )
I love how simple this particular pattern is to put together. And it’s great to see how diverse the same pattern can be when done in different colors.
I can relate to piecing as avoidance, I claim that quilting is my yoga and piecing is my favorite part. The star is awesome and a great go-to quilt pattern. It tickles me to see the occasional bit of red peeking through. Nice job.
Quilting is my refuge from the insanity of the world – if I can’t make sense of people, I can at least make something beautiful.
The random pops of color tickle me too! I’m glad I didn’t just put those patches aside for a different project. I think it brings some more visual interest to the quilt top.
Love the contrast between the star and the background. Looks like it was fun to piece.
This was a lot of fun to piece – I like to fall back to this pattern because I no longer need to measure. I just need a good selection of my pre-cut scraps.
I really love this. The pieced star is gorgeous and that peacock fabric is so pretty.
That peacock fabric is probably my favorite solid color right now. It’s probably a good thing I’m going to use up what I have soon.
Such a lovely quilt! I really like the color combination and it’s so out of my wheelhouse. I keep meaning to bring in some more color to the backgrounds of my quilts. That will be one of my resolutions for the coming year. For now, I need to plow through some Christmas projects (although I seem to be procrasti-piecing a lot lately!)
I’ve wanted to do something like this for a while – since I bought the peacock fabric in fact. Usually, I stick to ‘safer’ background colors.