WIP Wednesday!

[tielan]

(Okay, so it's Thursday night, but it's been a really busy week and next week is worse!)



I finally have the layout working for the Sanctuary Quilt!



It's still a lot busier than I like, but the pattern is coming much clearer now. One thing I'll have to keep in mind when cutting and placing the rest of the blocks is that the darker and solid colours will become the visual anchors for the quilt, so I should use them very deliberately.

Also, I've run out of fabric, so I've had to order in some more yardage to complete it! These are all the wedges I cut laid out with some of the corners filled in - I'm thinking the final configuration will be at least 9 blocks by 9 blocks, which should be about 60"x60". I think I might make some borders for this, although I'm not sure exactly what, or whether I really want to go through another round of piecing.

That's unlikely to be finished before I head off to Europe in May.

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I finally got my act together, picked my fabric and photographed them. The new phone is a little dodgy, so it's not a fantastic piece of photography:



I figured I'd use up some smallprint FQs I bought in a bundle aeons ago, as well as drag in a bunch of whites-on-creams that I have lying around. It should be a pretty, bright, classic quilt. Theoretically.

Now, the really tricky part will be actually quilting it before the deadline for the comp!

(And, crap-o-rama, I have to start working up my patterns for the Moda challenge thingy.)

Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Dodgy photo or not, I love the textures on those fabrics.

[tielan]

They're all single-colour, with small patterns on them. I love two-tones, but there's certainly something about single-colour 'solids'...

[thothmes]

Yes, the Sanctuary Quilt is busy to my eye, but I've seen some papers done by professional designers recently that look really quite similar.

I love the effect of the shading patterns on the solid colors in the lower photo, and I can't wait to see how it looks when it is pieced and done.

[tielan]

I think it might look a little less busy if I keep anchoring it with some 'solids' sections the way I already have. We'll see when the rest of the fabric arrives and I get around to laying it out.

There's something bothering me about the current state of the Sanctuary Kaleidoscope, but I think it's just the unfinished-ness of the bottom and right sections.

[rhianona]

It looks absolutely gorgeous. The colors are all so very vibrant.