After the girls in our hive made our original Scrappy Celebration in a palette like the pattern, and a second one in brighter colors, and a third one in patriotic colors, we still weren't tired of making blocks. So we switched it up and went with black instead of white, and black-alternatives instead of low volumes. We combined these with batiks in bright and light shades for contrast.
We were making blocks individually but using shared fabrics, and we ended up with too many blocks for a twin sized quilt. So I asked the girls to humor me and look at the blocks on the wall in a cool colorway and a warm colorway, and we liked it. Just a few more cool blocks were needed and we needed a lot more warm ones, so we decided to finish the cool version first.
Linda assembled the top and did the quilting. The binding isn't sewn down, but we all wanted to see it anyway. She brought it to social sewing in PCQ's fiber arts room to show it off.
The quilting adds great texture and compliments the piecing nicely. And you are right - it has a very luminous quality. I look forward to seeing the warm colorway and what you all sew together next!
ReplyDeleteBeautifully done! The colors really are luminous. Looking forward to seeing how the warm version worked out.
ReplyDeleteBeautiful! I love how you figured out that putting the darker ones around the edges and corners and the lighter ones in the middle makes it glow!!!
ReplyDeleteOh how fun! I had to pop over to see your three versions of Scrappy Celebrations after reading your comment on my post today. Each of your versions is more successful than mine, in my opinion, because of two things: First, I don't see any identical repeating blocks in your quilts, do I? Because I started this when I didn't have access to my stash or to any of my scraps, I was working with a couple of Tilda precut packs from the LQS and made 5-6 identical blocks in the exact same fabrics for each of the blocks in the design. Kind of the opposite of "scrappy" and that's why I'm had so much trouble without the layout, too much repetition and no way to avoid identical blocks positioned too close together in the final quilt. Also, your quilts were more consistent than I was in the use of either black or white/almost white in most blocks to unify all of those different prints. The blocks that annoy me the most in my version of the quilt are the ones where I used all medium or all dark value fabrics and none of my light or white background fabric at all. Also must say, what a fantastic idea to use this as a group project with multiple quilters contributing blocks! That really helped ensure each of your quilts would have a nice variety of blocks. And I can really see with this quilt in particular how your strategy of placing darker value blocks around the outside of the quilt worked. Nice job, Jan! I'm sure the charity was thrilled to receive these donations!
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