What’s on My Design Floor, Monday, April 9, 2012
Posted By drsao on April 9, 2012
Somehow I have managed to get my Carolina Crossroads II top together…..instead of a 5 x 5 arrangement – I have expanded it to 6 x 7. I love this quilt and it just MIGHT be my FAVORITE Bonnie Hunter quilt. It was her first Mystery Quilt and when I made the first one, I gave it away. THIS ONE I AM GOING TO KEEP! And…this week I am going to add borders. Here it is draped over my card table! I am going to put a 2″ beige border on, followed by a 2 1/2″ dark blue border and a 4 1/2″ barn red border. There is something about these 1 1/2″ tiny squares that absolutely fascinates me! I just wish that I could explain why I love these quilts with little tiny pieces so much!
I actually contemplated putting on a border of 1 1/2″ squares but I wasn’t sure how it would look since in the body of the quilt, the squares are offset so as to look like diamonds and the border squares would have looked like squares – so I talked myself out of that one!
In this quilt there are lots of fabrics from my first quilt that I made in 2007……I bought a LOT extra! LOL
I wonder what they thought at the quilt shop when I bought SO MUCH fabric for one quilt! 🙂
- Carolina Crossroads II Flimsy
Also on my Design Floor is my 2012 Color Challenge for April. The inspiration photo is of moldy pie……RIGHT……moldy pie. Vicki Welsh, the fiber artist who is putting out this challenge saw something beautiful in the colors that OCCURRED on her forgotten pie!
Moldy Pie Color Challenge April 2012
My friend Catherine is going to share some of her teal fabric with me – but this is what I have pulled from my stash so far. This is going to be my April Alzheimer’s Art Quilt when I have decided what to make!
Auditioning Fabrics
And the 2012 Free Motion Quilting Challenge this month is a REAL CHALLENGE. We are to make a stencil using TOILLE….which reminds me that I don’t have any! This is on my Design Floor this week!
From Don Linn - FMQ Expert for April
To see what other quilters are doing this week go to Judy Laquidara’s Blog…..
http://www.patchworktimes.com/2012/04/09/design-wall-monday-april-9-2012/
I have my #2 ready to put together also. I am almost ashamed to say that I started both of mine when Bonnie posted the first clue. It takes me a while, but I do get things finished.
Well, that is an unusual color inspiration! Your quilt is looking great. I can’t believe you’ve made two of that pattern – that is a lot of piecing!
I love your fabric selection for the challenge. The 4 on the right all read about the same dark value so you could reduce that to 1 or 2 fabrics if you want a simpler selection. Now, don’t give me “credit” for the pie. That was Judy’s pie! lol! I’d actually have to make a pie to have one go moldy on me so that’s not likely to happen.
This is my Favorite Bonnie quilt also. I made mine in Browns and blues and I am in love with it. I can understand making a second one since you gave the first one away. It looks great.
Your color palette fabrics look good too, I can’t wait to see what you come up with.
Good for you to keep it. It’s a beauty!!