So, now that the design is complete, and I am going with the theme of ” A Fine Day”, the next step was choosing the fabric. Yes, it did mean I bought up some extra Riley Blake prints 🙂
Sunrise (Mustards, Oranges)
Mid-day (Yellows, Teals)
Sunset (Purples, Pinks)
Evenings (Blues, Grey, Black)
Now onto the cutting, and making the improv blocks. Linking up with Fiona @ Finding Fifth for Sunday Stash.
Almost the end of the year!! Why is it always so chaotic??
I had planned my week of posts and unfortunately have not been able to stay to plan. Mostly, this is due to the fact, I am getting home after dark (~6pm), and I just can’t take great photos. Winter and its short days are not my friend :-(.
So excuse the photo quality, but I really wanted to post about my current WiPs I have going this week.
I am slowly starting to panic as I really need items 1, 3, 4, 5 finished in the next 6 days. I just need more time in the day :-).
I hope your Christmas prep is going well. I am linking up with Lee over at Freshly Pieced for WiP Wednesday.
Have you seen the Riley Blake Modern Quilt Guild Challenge?? Our guild handed out fabric sometime in October. I have only started now, and until now I had no idea what I was going to do.
Here are the fabrics (picture from MQG page):
The Navy gingham, Hipster Orange, Yellow Polka dots and the Aqua/Teal zig-zag fabrics made me think of different phases of a fine day.
Sunrise: Yellows + Oranges
Mid-day: Yellows + bright blues
Sunset: Purples + Pinks
Evening: Navy blues + Blacks
This lead to this design “A Fine Day”. Each of the color blocks will be improv scrap blocks, not solid as in the design below.
I plan to quilt it with some circular quilting on the lower half and then radiating lines on the top 1/2 in various colored thread.
In the challenge, you can add any Riley Blake fabric + any solid. Tomorrow, I will post some of my additional fabric choices.
Are you entering the Challenge? What are your plans?
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