This is a follow up to my recent post What’s On the Design Wall.
I’ve decided to name the freeform log cabin scrappy quilt I’ve created from my friend Dana’s scraps (see post What’s on the…Design Carpet) – “Seattle Scrappy”.
The name was inspired by the scraps coming from the Seattle area and that it is gray and in Winter it is fairly gray in the Seattle area.
Above you can see my current progress on the piece. I am nearly done with the top, I just need to frame the whole thing in rows of dark framed blocks.
This was my original concept – a center dark shape, created by freeform log cabin blocks with dark gray outside borders:
Then I would add lighter gray bordered freeform log cabin blocks around these blocks to float the center shape. However, as the black and white image I took of the quilt, the concept got a little muddled:
But you can still sort of see the concept and make out a darker shape floating in the lights blocks (I hope!)
I am hoping adding in a border all around of dark gray framed blocks will help my center pop a little more. A quilting friend said the piece looks like an aerial view of a city – I hadn’t thought of that!
More to come on “Seattle Scrappy” and I am currently trying to decide when I finish it, whether to:
- Have it professionally quilted (a.k.a. “quilting by check”)
- Machine quilt it myself
- Hand quilt it (how about some kantha stitching like @ marissthequilter/fabrications)
- Tie the quilt (yes, “old school” quilting tying)
If I cannot figure it out, I might ask you all to vote on it (smile)!
Postscript
Additional follow up from the post What’s On the Design Wall.
Do you remember the free large table I got from a community for sale board? Well I put risers (to make it “counter height”) on it and turned it into a large cutting and project table in my temporary studio (until I move to the new house in progress of being built some time in April):
I then snugged my sewing machine against the table to create a yummy temporary “Creation-Station” (patent pending? can I market that!??!):
Now I can comfortably watch the telly (well Netflix, ha!) while I sew.
I also added some quilts about the house. As I mentioned in a previous post, the house became sort of minimalist (and kind of sterile) when we staged it for the real estate sale photos that a professional photography came and took for the future real estate listing.
Since have delayed putting the house on the market until mid/late March, I was getting weary of living in basically a “model home”.
So I pulled out some of the quilts I had stored away and put them up on the wall with Command Strips!
And I placed an old quilt at the end of the bed where Mike my dog hangs out in my temporary studio while I sew:
On Superbowl Sunday (last Sunday), I had a “Stitching Bowl” and worked on getting the center of the piece sewn together:
But let’s back-up a moment, and tell you how this piece began and got to this point…
As you saw in the “From the Basket” post, I did work on my English Paper Piecing rosettes, but after a while I put them aside and STARTING PLAYING WITH THE GRAY SCRAPS! (I could not resist the temptation to play with fabric scraps)
And before I knew it, I had a pile of 138 blocks I made!
Once I got home, I could not wait to play with them and see what interesting pattern I could make with the dark gray and light gray framed blocks, So I decided to use the “Design Carpet”:
I began with creating a pattern with the dark gray framed blocks:
Then I worked on framing them with the light gray blocks:
