I designed the front of the quilt by drawing the blocks out on graph paper. I haven't seen a quilt quite like this before, and now I know the reason. When every block is different, you have can't take any shortcuts with cutting. It was painfully slow and after I finished the first one I almost didn't do the same thing for the second.
For my youngest niece, I used green sashing and a lighter green polka dot backing:
The back of hers has 6 wonky paintbox blocks set off center. I loved how they turned out, and I'm definitely going to try this again. I used oh fransson's tutorial. It is for regular paintbox blocks, but it was easy to make them wonky at the trimming step.
The binding is leftover fabric from the blocks. I was astonished at how much fabric I still have left over!
My sister sent me a picture of my niece cuddled up in the quilt and I felt sooo proud and happy.
I love it! The green is awesome - I'm sure it really goes well with the little bits of green in the paisley/floral prints. I just wish the pictures were bigger! Do you mind if I steal a picture and make a post about this on my blog?
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome to do that! I fixed the post so that clicking on the pictures links to a larger version.
ReplyDeleteI love the randomness of this quilt. Why do quilt blocks always have to be perfect squares?! It's different and I love it. Good choice of colours too! Well done
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