Quilt News 4 August! New Piecing for quilt 'Suppose', 4 Challenges in 1 'Mostly Green' Quilt Layout Progress, Hand Quilting Progress on Orange X Block Quilt, Garden Photos

A walk through the neighborhood.

I believe this is a Dutch Iris.

'Mostly Green' quilt layout possibility, deep brown 'Espresso' squares have replaced the 2 purple squares.

Garden lights.

More hand quilting progress on Orange X Block Quilt.

Mostly Green Quilt 'interviewing' layout possibilities in b/w.

Blocks and units that might be part of my new quilt 'Suppose.'

 

Quilt News from the valley!

Where it's August and summer temps are making life easy.

The last couple of weeks I've been hand quilting my Orange X Block quilt, pieced with left over parts and scraps. Hand quilting gives an organic, soft look to quilts, just lovely.

And I've been pulling out scraps and putting together units and blocks to be added or considered for my newest improv quilt, 'Suppose.' It's going to be the sampler kind and probably asymmetrical.

Then I finally finished the nine patches and four patch blocks that I wanted to go into my 'Mostly Green' quilt.

This quilt has been in progress for quite a while, it has a long history!

It first began as Sixteen Patch blocks for a green block challenge. I finished 9 sixteen patch blocks, mostly green, each block measures 8". What to do with them I didn't know so I put them away. Once in a while I took them out and looked at them.

Time went by and I noticed a challenge in AHIQ, I think it was, and it was making a quilt similar to one of the quilts in Rodney Kiracoff's book showing his collection of quilts, Unconventional and Unexpected.

Linda @ kokaquilts pieced up a great quilt using one of the quilts in his book as inspiration.

And the design idea of scale was an aspect of that particular quilt design.

Then another challenge came up in AHIQ, Scale, Aha! I started thinking, what if..?

Then wouldn't you know it another challenge comes up in AHIQ, asymmetrical/symmetrical.

Another Aha!

I thought, 'Why couldn't I combine 4 challenges into one quilt? Then I had a reason to solidify a design!

So the color green block challenge and the AHIQ challenge for making a quilt inspired by a quilt in Rodney's book and the challenge of using scale and the challenge of using asymmetry/symmetry is being met in my design of my 'Mostly Green' quilt!

Maybe I should call it 4 in 1 Mostly Green.

The blocks I have now, when pieced will measure 48 x 48".

 and that, Quilt Friends,  is the news from the valley!

where I'm remembering to be thankful.

I'll be by to visit.