THE BLOCK
Trimmed Quilt Block, originally uploaded by the workroom.
My quilt top is now completely pieced together. I can hardly believe it. Since this is my first quilt, I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to make it absolutely perfect. This personal pressure definitely accounts for the fact that it took me 5+ years to collect all the ‘right’ fabrics for it.
You’ve already met Lorelei (the centre piece blue floral), now you can meet all the other fabrics. The fabrics that started it all and set the tone for the colour palette are the first three from right to left. These fabrics were designed by my dear friend Angela for a bedding line that didn’t end up going into production. I snatched up all the sheet samples after the market show was over. The fabrics are yarn dyed, meaning that the yarns were dyed beforehand and then woven together. That stripe is not printed, it’s woven. Even the two solids have multiple coloured threads woven in which really adds another dimension. Besides being designed by a close friend, this fabric doesn’t exist anywhere else, except for in this quilt. How cool is that?
The dark brown fabric was a purchase from the legendary Purl Soho. It’s hard to see, but there is a very subtle cross stitch print with the alphabet going through it.
The last fabric is from the My Folklore collection by Lecien. I found this fabric in the very first order I received for the shop. It was last summer when the boxes of fabric arrived at my house. (I hadn’t even secured a space yet) I couldn’t resist opening up the packages and checking out the fabrics I had chosen. It was even better than Christmas. When I saw that brown floral on blue, I ran to my room and got out my bag of collected quilt fabrics. Yes! This was the final fabric I had been waiting for.
Stay tuned for a look at all the blocks together.
p.s. I had key lime pie for breakfast today. I thought somebody should know that.
4 comments
Go, Karyn, go!! It looks great!! How are you going to quilt it? Hand-quilting is fun, and it’s easy to pick up and put down. I’m just saying… 🙂 And is that brown fabric with the cross stitch design on it long gone?
J – My plan is definitely to try doing hand quilting for this project. I just found a selvedge piece of the brown cross stitch fabric. It is by Japanese, designed by Junko Matsuda. I’ve searched for it online, but I don’t think it is in production anymore.
How exciting! I want to make something like this… I wonder if my boyfriend would like it.
How long does something like this usually take to make?