The goals for this quilt were quite simple. Use a lot of prints, big blocks and stay on track with simplicity.
Believe it or not, picking fabric wasn't the problem this time. I had it in my mind for well over a year so you'd think after all that time it would be set in stone! Coming up with a design or a block was the biggest hold up.
So, I pondered. Hemmed and hawed. Flipped and flopped. Finally I settled on this 8 1/2" block.
I stitched diagonal lines for the half square triangles, then sliced, pressed and trimmed each one. Again, thank you Bloc-Loc for making this step much quicker and easier!
For the rectangle blocks I stitched a diagonal line from corner to corner. I could have left it at that and sliced 1/4" from the seam. But with one extra step I could have a stack of half square triangles stitched and ready for another project at a later date.
I stitched another line a 1/2" from the corner to corner diagonal line. With my rotary cutter I cut in between the lines giving each seam a 1/4". Now those bonus HST's are ready to rock and roll into another quilt...sometime, later, one day or maybe sooner!
After pressing its time to match prints and assemble the blocks. The rectangle needs nothing after trimming the corner, but the HST required a square to be added. With the layout I choose, I decided I wanted to add solids so that the four squares became four different shades.
Then is was simply sewing the two pieces together to create an 8 1/2" (unfinished) block.
After which became one big 16 1/2" (unfinished) block by sewing four together. And boy do I love big blocks! At this point it made assembly of the quilt top super quick and easy. There was some matching of seams in the mix, but nothing that drove me crazy!
The white is Kona Snow and I considered adding triangles to corners of the solid squares. I went so far as to put a call out on Instagram for opinions! In the end I stayed with my original plan. Keep it simple. My intentions were to have a quilt with loads of these colors...and that's just what I did!
The block layout changed a bit from the picture above, but the top is finished. And its big! It'll be 64" x 80"! If only I had backing! To be continued!
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