Monday, February 14, 2011

the one I made

Finally I can show off the little quilt I made for Julie, for PQS5!
selvage pinwheel quilt for PQS5
For this quilt, I started out just by making some selvage rainbows. Then I trimmed them all down to the same width (4", 4 1/2", I can't remember for sure) and made half-square triangles with the selvages and some Kona crush.

I wanted to do something interesting with the quilting... I think I achieved that. The swirls weren't too difficult, it was the straight-ish line spiral in the colored triangles that was challenging to get right.

Here's a view of the back, another look at the quilting:
PQS5 quilting closeup
These swap quilts are a good chance to try out new patterns, or piecing ideas, or quilting ideas, without committing to something huge and super time consuming. :)

Hope you had a great Valentine's Day! The We Love Jenny auction will be open until 10 pm EST, Tuesday February 15. Please check it out, and help out if you can.

6 comments:

QuiltGypsy Mermaids said... 1

love the bright colors in this little quilt! Beautiful !!!

Anonymous said... 2

So very lovely, I love the quilting it is fantastic!

Candied Fabrics said... 3

LOVE this! You know, one of the things I miss most working only with my hand dyed fabric is that I have no selvedges to do all those cool things other people do with them! ;-)

That quilting is awesome!

Patrizia said... 4

Living in Ohio, the first quilt just makes it feel like summer! Beautiful!

Patrizia

Nanette Merrill said... 5

I really love it. Great job.

Tamar said... 6

This is fantastic! Thanks for showing the quilting on the back. I'm just getting ready to explore more variety in my quilting, but I'm never quite sure what to do.