Saturday 11 January 2014

Like Rubik's cube

I like it when you decide to make something and the project teaches you a thing or two. This one has taught me about how trying to be random/scrappy takes a lot of effort. I cut into my AMH stash with a vague idea about alternating squares with hourglass blocks. Biggish pieces to make the most of the large scale prints.


In my first attempt I tried matching pairs for the hourglass blocks and realised I could get a light/dark pattern going on. I can't quite recall why I decided against this but I did.


I set to and tried a more random layout. I cannot tell you how many times I moved each individual piece of fabric around, but I estimate roughly eleventy billion. It's like Rubik's cube which I never mastered. Move one piece, then you  need to move another, then another and so on and so on.


This is where I got to by cup of tea time this afternoon. I can see a few more moves need to be made, but I think I'm getting close. The surprise of this quilt is the way the brown leopard skin print works - never in my dreams did I imagine I could love brown leopard skin print fabric, but in this project I do!

Now I really must abandon my obsessive fabric rearranging and do a bit of FMQ practice.

10 comments:

  1. The leopard skin blends in beautifully. I never would have seen it if you didn't say so. Lovely fabrics

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  2. You are doing a great job getting those very busy prints to work! I have a piece of that leopard print and cannot imagine how I would use it!

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  3. Hey.. it's looking really great!! and I understand your reservations re the animal print, but I have to agree it really works!!! As for "going scrappy" .....you just play!!! L

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  4. How did you come to possess leopard skin like fabric!

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  5. Brown leopard skin prints are key to the success of many quilts ;-)

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  6. This is going to be stunning Megan.

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  7. Ohhhhhh. That is freakin awesome. Covet. Put it in my box when you decide you don't like it anymore :-)

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  8. Oh I love this :-) I have a stash of AMH fabrics too - and was just going to go for straight patchwork but am worrying about placing the fabrics too. Looks like you've mastered it :-)

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  9. Love this - I so need to get myself some AMH. Random is so hard to do - I'm trying to be sort of scrappy with my current project - it's not working - I still try and put co-ordinating colours next to each other.

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  10. The leopard print works so well that until you mentioned it I didn't see it.:)

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