This week I have been working hard to get my Atlantic Sea Quilt top done. This quilt started life many months ago as this block…
After making of few of these blocks I put them together to see what the pattern would look like and found that there was a beautiful meta pattern (as the hubby would say) which was giving the quilt a real sense of movement.
The pattern I am using is a free paper piecing pattern from Quilters Cache. You can find a link to the pattern under my “free paper piecing pattern” tab or on the original post.
Fast forward a month or four and I have made lots and lots of blocks. This week I pinned what I had made up on the design wall and Instragramed the results.
I liked how it was coming together but I thought it needed a little something. I could go with a coloured binding but I did not think that it would be enough… so this week I whipped up this block.
And then added it to the quilt work in progress….
All of a sudden the quilt came alive. I love this little splash… I think it helps the eye identify the pattern easier and makes the top sing…
Now I just have to sew the last couple of rows together, remove all the paper from the back and the top will be done. I am so excited by this piece of scrap magic. I had a blast raiding my scrap bin for this baby!
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That splash is perfect! It almost makes this quilt the reverse of you icky thump – more gray than aqua. 😀 Really, really gorgeous.
You are so right…there is definitely more grey than aqua in this one. I did play with different colours but aqua was just to perfect.
I love it. It reminds me of the storm at sea quilt that I want to do someday.
I want to do a storm at sea quilt too. It is on my long list of “must do” patterns.
So gorgeous, Cath. I grew up on the East Coast and spent many happy summers swimming in the Atlantic. Your quilt captures it beautifully.
I must admit I have swum in the the Atlantic but it was really really cold and I think of that icy blue as perfect for my British Atlantic experience. A summer swim in warmer waters sounds perfect though.
Love the pop of color you added here! I really like the movement in this quilt!
This is so pretty! I love the pop of blue but I love it just gray, too! Beautiful job.
Beautiful – I love it!
The turquoise really added a lot of ‘wow factor’ to this. I love it!
Oh, I just love this! It’s going to be a gorgeous quilt. The pop of aqua is perfect.
I’m totally in love!
The splash of color is a huge modern addition. Looks great!
I love that splash of teal!!!
This is so fabulous, but that turquoise makes it sing! Love! 🙂
Beautiful, I love the pop the little bit of color gives.
Wow!!! Wow!!!! Lots of Wows!!!! And then more wow when you added the aqua!!!! Beautiful!!!!
Thanks. I think that is the most wows I have had so far.
Now you’ve done it! Gone and made me have to add another quilt to my to-do list! And their was already no end in sight to that puppy! Beautiful job!
Sorry. I will try not to do it again…lol.
Yup, that’s the slow heave of the cold grey Atlantic off the north Cornish coast, with a brilliant splash of blue when the sun came out for the traditional English 5 minute summer… Lovely sense of rolling movement! But I cannot believe you leave all the paper in till the end! That would drive me nuts, I’d have to pick it out as I went along…
I have trained the hubby to help with the paper…. But I find it more accurate to sew it together with the paper attached. Accurate but bulky.
You are fortunate. The Husband of Chiconia and I are both complete klutzes and if an object can be dropped and smashed it will be, and if a hole can be poked accidentally in fabric it will be. So I prefer to keep the responsibility for potential quilt damage to myself!
Oh don’t get me wrong weird and wonderful things break, fall, collapse, disintegrate etc around the hubby but with careful supervision he is quite handy at removing the paper bits. I do usually have to go in with tweezers afterwards to get all the small bits but he enthusiastically tackles the big ripping jobs!
Wow this is fabulous! Love the splash of colour!
Wow, I love it. All the points perfectly pieced, you’re either very accurate or very patient! The quilt reminded me of a view through a kaleidoscope.
Sam the paper piecing makes the points very easy to get accurate.
What a wonderful quilt! That splash of color is perfect!
This is gorgeous! Love the addition of the pop of color.
The color pop really looks great!
Thanks for making my day with this great post of an outstanding quilt – bravo!! xoxoLiz
I love the splash, great idea!
What a great caleidoscope-work!!! Especially I like the blue accent you put in.
love black and white quilts, and yours with a bit of aqua is prrrfect!
gorgeous! I love how you use color. I’ve finally figured out how to subscribe to your blog!
Thanks…I do love to play with colour.
you have a great eye for it!
It’s so perfect with the splash of teal.
Thanks Mel. It did make a difference.
Great quilt
The grays look sensational and do remind one of a stormy sea; but when you added the teal block…you are so right it came alive. Almost as if a ray of sunlight appeared in the stormy seas. Love this quilt!
What a fabulous description. I love the idea of the aqua being little rays of light.