First, I went through all my books about quilting, all my printouts of great ideas. I wanted to find he "perfect" quilt pattern, and I thought I had - Little Red Schoolhouse. Then I looked through my fabrics and thought that red and white or even cream would be lovely, but I didn't have enough of those colours. Then I looked at current fabric prices.
After my near heart attack, I went back to the drawing board and looked through my stacks of completed blocks and also stacks of charms. I recalled I started cutting squares and rectangles for "Mary's Triangles" about 6 or 7 years ago, and finally located the plastic tub they are in. The colours are a bit wacky, but I separated out the greens, blues, reds, browns and golds with the odd dusty pink and faded dark purple thrown in. I think the colour scheme is nice. I'm using off-whites and creams with ditzy florals on for the "lights" (no WOW or COW because I've heard those with plastic-y type stencils don't stand the test of time). The 8" blocks are going together quickly - you make two at once!
- and it has become rather addictive, seeing how the colour combinations will come out in these scrappy blocks.
Has anyone else here started a new quilt recently? What pattern did you choose? Colours? Techniques?
-- Jo in Scotland