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.
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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