I finished up my warm/cool mini quilt this week,
part of Jeni's quilt along at In Color Order.
I love how vibrant the colors are, and they look just lovely in our garden!
So since I finished one quilt along, I figured, why not start another?
Plus, this first block looked so easy, I couldn't resist.
It's part of the Summer Sampler Quilt Along.
I looked at the instructions while eating breakfast monday morning,
and had it finished by the time the kids woke up!
It was a really fun way to start my week.
And I'm glad I'm finally using these DS quilts fabrics . . . I've been looking at them, wondering what to do with them, for too long!
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| Summer Sampler, Virginia Star |
I'm still working on my Kaleidoscope blocks . . . slowly.
The one block that is completely pieced looks a bit lumpy in the middle.
I'm hoping that Elizabeth has some good tips on
joining the halves of the Kaleidoscope later this week!
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| AMH Loulouthi, with Kona solids |
I spent way too much time this week thinking about blocks
for the 4 X 5 Modern Quilt Bee.
The first one I tried was a design I created--
it looked pretty good on paper, but was a disaster.
The next 2 are here -- any thoughts?
Ooo I really like your kaleidescope blocks :)
ReplyDeleteI like both of your 4x5 test blocks - especially the orange one. Very nice! And as for your blocks, don't let the lumpiness bother you. Quilting will hide that - trust me, after quilting my spiderweb quilt (which had some seriously lumpy seams), I am super confident in saying that quilting can hide just about anything!
ReplyDeleteI love the off center placement on the warm cool!
ReplyDeleteYour warm cool HST mini is adorable! Love the offset center design. I also love both blocks, perhaps the orange just slightly more than the mini pinwheels, but both are seriously awesome :-)
ReplyDeleteMy kaleidoscope blocks are lumpy too! At least we have each other... :)
ReplyDeleteI'm loving your mini pinwheels block!
Everything looks SO awesome!! I LOVE the warm/cool quilt!! It is divine!! And you Kaleidoscope looks great!!
ReplyDeleteOh, everything is so lovely!
ReplyDeleteAs for the kaleidoscope blocks--there's some great tips in the discussion on Flickr, and I found that for me, spray-starching the quarter-blocks really helped when sewing the last few seams.
I saved her posts of instructions on making the warm/cool quilt and hope to give it a try one day.
ReplyDeleteI love the warm/cool quilt - the colours are indeed gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteI love the last of your blocks too - it comes together to make a lovely pattern.
I like your 4x5 blocks. That warm/cool quilt is very nice as well!
ReplyDeleteWow, everything looks so great! Love what you did with the warm/cool quilt and your choice of adding solids in the Kaleidascope quilt. It's going to look so beautiful! Loving your orange block for the 4 by 5. It really pops!
ReplyDeletei like that orange grey and white block. very effective. I struggle with using orange despite knowing it is a great pop in a quilt so i take notice of thing using that color.
ReplyDeleteI love your Kaleidascope blocks! Those are my very favorites so far out of any I have seen. Very very nice colors.
ReplyDeleteWow! I just *love* the blocks you designed! the subtle patchwork on the orange stripe makes you look twice, and the green pinwheels are wonderful with the b&w's. :D
ReplyDeleteLove your Warm/Cool quilt!
ReplyDeleteI love how your warm/cool quilt turned out! I am a huge polka dot fan so its fun to see all the polka dots you used :)
ReplyDeleteoh... i like the orange block. It is neat.
ReplyDeleteLove the orange/grey block - so zingy! Will they go in the same direction, zig zag, go in a square or some other layout - so many variations!
ReplyDeleteyour warm/cool mini quilt is beautiful! I like both of the blocks you made, esp the orange/grey/white one :-)
ReplyDeleteI love every project you featured today. I am a picky quilter, so you should feel honored! ;) Just kidding, but, honestly, all of your projects looks great. I love the colors, especially in your warm/cool quilt. And your bee blocks look good.
ReplyDeleteOMG, I LOVE the orange 4x5 block! That's fabulous, great job. And your Warm/Cool quilt looks great too. Thanks for linking up to WIP Wednesday. : )
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