Selvage Color Blocks

While i was playing with selvages some months ago i created a new selvage block ..... so i made a bunch of them over the weeks and called it a quilt. LOL  it's about 60x65"  

I sewed colored strips diagonally across the base fabric and then put a border of that color around each block.

I was trying to represent every color...and trying to keep the borders a plain color. sometimes that worked...sometimes not. and some borders are thinner and some wider. no measuring for me.

The sashing is a selvage fabric that someone had printed at Spoonflower and i had to have some. i think selvage dots are a perfect fit for a selvage quilt.

The sashing cornerstones are the same black print as the border.

I pieced the back just because i could and it used up more stash. i see now i should have switched those 2 on the bottom left and i wouldn't have those darks all together. oh, well...it's done now.

I quilted with squiggly lines through the sashing and made an "X" through each block. i did a continuous line across and back....so sometimes the sashing was crossed over twice...sometimes not. i'm ok with that. and did a squiggly loopy thing in the border.

Used the leftovers from the backing for the binding. just had enough...about a foot left over.

King Tut on the top and So Fine in the bottom. used up scraps of batting .... some black...some white. LOL  i use up EVERYTHING.

Will add this one to my collection of selvage quilts...probably numbering over a dozen now. i have a black selvage quilt going on the frame next.....i'll show you...

Later

January Color Pallette Challenge

What do you get when you combine Judy Laquidara (www.patchworktimes.com) and Vicki Welsh (www.vickiwelsh.typepad.com)

Why, you get the 2012 Color Pallette Challenge. every month Vicki will give us a color pallette from a picture that inspired her and Judy is hosting our progress pictures on her site. We are to make something with those colors....we can make anything....a quilt,  a wallhanging, a table runner, a garment, anything.

Our pallette for January was this. I used my Kona cotton solids. the colors i chose were navy, windsor, turquoise, grass green, raisin and (?)..i lost the name tag from the last piece. LOL oops

Vicki's colors came from this tile. i thought i would do a tile piece, too. i found a block in EQ that i liked and made 6 blocks. i actually cut 6 base pieces and sewed them together but decided after the fact that i could have just cut it as one whole piece. ..next time.

I cut out all the pieces and fused them onto the base with Steam A Seam 2.  i like that you can just trace your piece on the SAS2, press it onto the fabric and then cut it out. easy.

Although in the pattern all the tiny pieces were cut out individually.... i learned from the base and i consolidated and cut them out together to make whole and half flowers. and the long green sections in the middle were done as one piece also.

This was rather fun to do. it wasn't colors i would have pulled together to make something on my own. and it didn't take a lot of time. one evening to trace parts and another evening to cut and fuse.

This turned out to be about 17 x 23 inches. although i am not going to quilt it yet, i consider this challenge finished for this month. my plan is to make each month's challenge the same size and combine them all together into a quilt at the end of the year. it will be the 2012 Color Pallette Quilt. LOL

I like that idea. OK, Vicki....what's next. 

Later