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Fabrics N Quilts Scrap Quilt Contest 2012 Free Form Quilt WIP Report

August 16, 2012 by persimondreams 2 Comments

I’m too excited about my Scrap Quilt Contest piece to blog about anything else.  Right now I’m going to show you how my quilt transformed from these nine blocks:2012-07-09 15.51.59

to this ‘Amazing Technicolor Dream Quilt’ top.  P7270067I had a difficult time deciding what was the easiest and best way to ‘blend’ my nine blocks together.  Where does one start?  I finally just started.  P7230001I chose to start with the black/white center and the orange block.  I also decided that I wanted to create somewhat of a ‘border’ for this quilt using my brown scraps.  I didn’t add those in until I started the blending process.  You’ll see how they come in to play as the quilt progresses.  This first blend seemed together very smoothly and fast.  I sort of figured this is how the rest would go as well.P7240002

 

I soon realized that when you’re just worrying about 3 colors (black/white, orange, and brown) it is much easier than you’re working about 5… (black/white, orange, brown, yellow and green) which was the case as I started my ‘blending’ process on the yellow block.  I also realized here that I really needed to add to the black and white center block to make it work with the rest of the pieces.  This was perfect actually because I could add in some of the colors from the color wheel to help with the blending process.

I just realized I should step back a second.  How was I ‘blending’ my blocks?  Well…I pulled out the corresponding scrap fabric containers depending on which colors I was working on.  At first I had out the black/white container, the orange scrap container, and my brown scrap container.  I made strips using the three different fabrics and then cut into the existing blocks to mix the strips in.  The orange blended into the black/white and vice versus.  Same went for the brown.  It was a lot of cutting, sewing, turning, cutting some more, and sewing.  I’m probably not explaining it very well so if it’s something you’re interested in doing I strongly recommend getting the book ‘create your own free-form quilts’ by Rayna Gillman.  She does a really good job explaining the process.

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Once the yellow was blended I had to blend the green, sew it to the yellow and then piece it to the first blend I did.

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My goal in piecing quilts is to always sew the shortest distance possible.  So…the next section to blend was the red and pink.

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After that – purple then blue…P7270058turquoise was last.

The blending process of the quilt took me way longer than I thought I would.  I wanted to make sure that everything flowed really well together and to do that…LOTS of cutting, piecing, cutting, piecing, piecing, cutting, and more piecing was necessary.

 

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But in the end…it was totally worth it.  My quilt top was finally pieced!  I could hardly believe it!

Next…off to Barb, QuiltsbyBarb, for the quilting!

 

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  1. Shannon says

    August 16, 2012 at 9:50 pm

    AWESOME! I have been so entranced with the center that I didn't even recognize a brown border. SHAME ON ME! so you made a strip to stitch between the sections that incorporate all relevant colors? Thanks for the book title. on my list for sure!

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  2. PersimonDreams says

    August 17, 2012 at 3:08 pm

    Yes! That's what I was trying to write but couldn't figure out how. I 'blended' within each block and then to tie them together I sewed strips of the relevant colored scraps ans that's how they all came together…Still not sure if I'm making sense…

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