Night & Day quilt – Work in Progress Wednesday

Posted in Quilt patterns, Scrap quilts, WIP Wednesday by wombatquilts

Having just finished my gretchen block quilt top I decided that I wanted to do another modern take on a traditional quilt block. I settled on making the night & day quilt block using a grey and green color palette.

I am doing another paper piecing scrap quilt. I am really enjoying paper piecing again after 4 years of not doing even one foundation block/paper pattern. You can find quiltcache’s version of the Night and Day pattern here

I am only a day into this quilt and have already made a few blocks and a lot of mess. My work station is awash with grey and green fabric and my husband is now pulling grey thread off his shirts rather than the white he usually has to contend with.

I am really excited about how this quilt looks, even at this early stage. I am going to work hard to get it finished in the next week or so and promise to post the final quilt when it is done.

9Jan2013

Gretchen blocks – work in progress Wednesday

Posted in Quilt patterns, Scrap quilts, WIP Wednesday by wombatquilts

At Project Linus there is a constant need for boys quilts and every now and then I make a conscious effort to make boy appropriate quilts. I must admit my fabric stash is full of wonderful florals, pinks, princesses, mermaids and other girlcentric fabric. I do try to make a lot of my quilts gender neutral – not too many flowers, appropriate backing fabric and minimal pink.

This week I pulled blues and oranges from the my stash and also raided my scrap boxes for little bits and pieces to make a quilt just for the boys. I kept the florals to a bare minimum.

After some pondering I decided to make a gretchen block quilt (partly because I love the irony of making a boys quilt using a girl named block and partly because it is a cool block). The gretchen block is an easy, traditional quilt pattern and Seven Stitches has a great tutorial on making it here. I actually went the paper piecing route and Quilterscache has a great paper pattern you can find here.

I have a pile of blocks made and a pile still to make. I have been playing with the layout of the blocks and looking at what size I want to make the finished quilt. Although this is a traditional quilt block, my interpretation is definitely modern.

I am loving how the pattern and colours work together and the scraps seem to add a really fun element to the quilt. I am excited to see how it all comes together.

17Dec2012

Paper Piecing Monday

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday, Quilt patterns, Quilts by wombatquilts

It is that time of the week again…. and here is the latest block. Another winning pattern from the Quilting on the Square team.

As is the way with the last couple of paper piecing patterns, the finished block is made up of 8 triangle pieces. The pattern for this Quilting on the Square block can be downloaded here block8countyfaircompass.

I tried two different colour ways with this block, the above one focuses on red and the block below focuses on the aqua/blue colour.

10Dec2012

Paper Piecing Monday

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday by wombatquilts

For part two of my Paper Piecing sampler I choose another block from Quilting on the Square…. I warn you I am slightly addicted to their patterns so there will be more. Here is today’s block…

The pattern is made up of 8 triangle pieces that are quick and easy to make and come together easily. The pattern for this block can be downloaded here block1whichwaynorth or you can go straight to the source at http://www.quiltingonthesquare.com/compass-collection.aspx.

This block was so easy to make that I have made two of them. My second version is just a little subtler than the first.

4Dec2012

Paper Piecing Monday

Posted in Paper Piecing Monday, Quilt patterns by wombatquilts

As part of my quilting adventure I have decided to do a sampler quilt of sorts, doing a new block every Monday. I have been wanting to do a red and aqua quilt for a while now and this seemed like a great opportunity to use those little bits and pieces of fabric I have been collecting – a 1/4 yard at a time!

I love paper piecing because it frees me from the trauma of measuring and cutting exactly. As a beginner quilter most of my quilts were paper pieced. I am not a precise person and paper piecing allows me to do intricate blocks quickly and easily. It feels a little like cheating!

I decided to focus on stars for the first round of Paper Piecing Monday and after some surfing, found a great site, Quilting on the Square, which has given me my first lot of paper piecing patterns for this challenge.

The pattern is relatively simple, with nice easy instructions. This is the PDF of the pattern block2spinningpoints or you can visit the Quilting on the Square site at http://www.quiltingonthesquare.com/compass-collection.aspx.

The basic block pieces

It takes eight of these pattern pieces to make the completed block. I went with the little more traditional tone on tone fabrics for this block, but I am looking forward to making it again with a little more adventurous fabric choices.