I had all my fabrics pulled and ready to go but I couldn't decide between the two blacks for the background of the block. I did a test of each and let that sit for a couple days.
My first instinct was to go for the more solid black fabric, but when I asked for my husband's opinion, he immediately went for the Architectures print and said, "That one's different from what you usually do and a little more rock and edgy looking." With a block named after a White Stripes song, I'll take rock and see what happens!
I loved the results but it was a little more work to keep all those scrawling sentences correctly aligned. I had to pull out the seam ripper a couple times - which can be a royal pain with all of those tiny stitches through fabric and paper.
All 16 squares went together pretty quickly over a couple days and then the whole mini began to take shape! I really love how it all turned out...just look how many shapes emerge from this pattern!
I think it would be an amazing looking full-sized quilt, but the amount of time it takes to take out all that paper - no matter how well its perforated to begin with - just takes a lot of time. Wine helps.
So now I just have to figure out how to quilt it...any suggestions??
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| Side note: I love how my random placement on the batting ended up looking like an old Polaroid! |
This looks AMAZING!!!!!
ReplyDeleteThis is AWESOME! I can't believe you aligned all of the sentences.
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! So cool! Very Rock and roll. Maybe echo quilt inside each chape on the black print?
ReplyDeleteNice! I love it and I love how well thought out your process was. I'd follow the design to quilt it- it already has a great design built right in.
ReplyDeleteHoly crap, this is amazing! Pure and total insanity lining up the text fabrics but the result is totally worth it. I truly just love it. With your color choices you can really see the shapes that form between the blocks. Thank you so much for making it!
ReplyDeleteFabulous placement of the text fabric and love your batting/Polaroid comment. I'd echo or ditch quilt the main design and maybe fmq over the text to knock it further into the background - that'll make the main design pop out even more. This might be a contender for my next Queen Bee month - it would be great to have eleven of those blocks made up for me!!! Oh and I clicked through to The White Stripes and totally enjoyed listening to them while I've been reading/typing this, but then I do love The White Stripes, so a big thank you ;)
ReplyDeleteOkay, yeah, this is definitely a bit of alright! ;-) It makes me want to paper piece for the first time. I agree with ChrissieD - some ditch quilting and then push that black background further back with some dense line or echo quilting.
ReplyDeleteVery cool quilt! Wrestling with lining up the script in the architecture fabric looks like it was totally worth it to get that end product.
ReplyDeleteThis one turned out awesome! I really love the pattern!
ReplyDeleteThat is awesome - hard core - to the max! I have also been enjoying this series of blocks. Great job. Jack and Meg would be proud.
ReplyDeleteLove this one!! I can't get over the awesomeness of the architextures print. You did a fantastic job lining it up!
ReplyDeleteWow, this is awesome!!! Your attention to detail is enviable and I love the secondary pattern. You're a serious competitor;-)
ReplyDeleteI love the way these blocks come together! The red is so striking!
ReplyDeleteWow so pretty! You did fantastic with those colors! Maybe an echo quilting, with some type of roundish in the centers?
ReplyDeleteI like the idea of using a photo color card as color scheme inspiration.
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