For this month’s “A lovely year of finishes” I am targeting to finish one of 3 quilt tops. I do not think I will get that quilt top finish, but the good news is I finished my first quilt design for the first quilt.
I had mentioned that I was looking to do something like this:
Well then I was in a meeting the other day, and someone had put up a powerpoint slide, which lead me to designing my own block using threadbias.com. It has a set of arrows that point in (this way) and a set of arrows that point out (that way). Here is a look at the block:
The quilt is for a boy who loves blue, so playing with blues and this design here is what I think the final quilt will look like. What do you think?
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Very nice! This is already looking great. It’s going to be exciting seeing it transferred to fabric.
I just pulled out all 40 fabrics I think can work today from my stash – so I am hoping to get a row done this week, if I ignore my other projects 🙂
Love it! What a great design you have come up with! Can’t wait to follow your progress!
Oh wow. I love both! Great job!
Go for it:-)
Love it! Reminds me of a coloring page out of one of those optical illusion books. It works! Some of the squares I see the inside arrows, some the outside. Super cool, should look great and be well loved. 🙂
I was thinking of tessellations when making it up, hopefully the mum who has requested it likes it too 🙂
Love your design – go for it!
Congrats on your nomination for The Good Neighbor Award! Beautiful projects by you. Blessings, Mtetar
Thank you – I didn’t know until you mentioned it 🙂 Congrats to you as well.
My pleasure and thank you as well! Blessings, Mtetar
This is going to look incredible! What did you think of the Threadbias tool – is it pretty intuitive?
It is not too bad, there are a couple of things I would change. The thing I like the most is you can cancel at any time and just use it for the month you have paid for.
This looks really great! The back and forth with dark and light fabrics is great. I like that it’s all made of arrows (in the centres, obviously) but that depending how you look at it, sometimes it’ll just look like a generic background and then other times your eye will make it pop up and look like an arrow – like an optical illusion.
Thanks, I had in mind some kind of tessellation idea, which I changed to this but it still has that arrow within arrow thing going 🙂
I love that!
Thanks :-), I just pulled out my fabric and actually have 40 blue toned fabrics I can use with some left over. Mentioned it to the hubby who thinks I now have enough fabric… but maybe if I didn’t have it how can you pick them out and just do such a project right 😉
Congratulations on your Good Neighbor Nomination and enjoy the first week of Autumn.
Thank you 🙂
YES. A million times yes. I love this! Sew carefully and consider writing up a pattern…:)
I will do my best. I will dig some patterns out and make sure I know how to write one up.
What a fun design! I love how the darkness of the fabric appears to make the arrows change direction.
This looks great, Michelle! I’m excited to see what you pulled from your (*amazing*) stash!
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