After finishing the Grandmother’s Flower Garden quilt, I treated myself to a new project. Now, this new project was one I had been looking forward to making for quite some time. In fact, I used the promise of starting a new project as motivation for finishing the large previous project.
I washed up my fabric as I always do (described here in a previous post), prepped it and began cutting 2” strips. Lots and lots of yummy looking strips.
Bright colors!
I sewed a bunch of these strips together in various arrangements and sub-cut the strip sets.
And this is what I got.
A sea of glorious colors! Don’t you love fabric? I sure do.
And then I sewed the sub-cut strips together to get my first blocks.
Does it look like anything yet?
Here’s a hint: this stack of identical blocks is only half of the story. I guess if I would have taken more time and more photos, I could have shown you the alternate blocks.
But I was just too excited to get this quilt top together, so there are no pictures of those alternate blocks, but here is the Electric Quilt rendering.
There, now can you tell what this quilt is going to be? Don’t let the non-traditional color palette fool you, this is a very, very traditional quilt pattern. Any ideas?
More tomorrow.
:)
Oooh love the colors! Can’t wait to see the finished product.