IMPROV OMBRE - QUILTED VERSION

There are previous posts about the making of the Improv Ombre quilt from leftover "Lipstick Cowgirl" fabric.  But this one is all about the fabulous quilting by Corrie Coldwell of C2 Quilting.

Here's what she posted on Instagram:

Well, her quilting is what makes it gorgeous.. just take a look!

I finished it with a facing and just love it.  Don't you love it too?

Ombre leftovers

I had a lot of the Lipstick Cowgirl turquoise to gray ombre fabric left over after cutting out the pieces for the Modernized New York Beauty.   I just loved the fabric so much that I decided to make another quilt with the ombre as the background.  The pieces left over were mostly the gray to the lighter turquoise, plus some of the darkest turquoise at the edges.  The trick was to design a quilt using what I had left over.   I looked at several ideas, and then just decided to do improv.  I had been looking at some of the elongated or melon shapes that some quilters are now using, and decided that was the direction for this piece.  Here are some of the pieces that I've made and put up on my design wall.

I made all of these pieces as rectangular blocks.  I have no idea how I want to sew them together, or how large I want the piece to be in the end.  But, I like the start of it!

And I hope you like the start of it too!

Tradition Made Modern - part Two

This is a continuation of a previous post about the making of the challenge quilt for Mod Squad, which is a modernized version of the New York Beauty block.

I foundation pieced the inner arcs, using my freezer paper pattern as the foundation.  It makes things so much simpler for me to precut the shapes with a template piece that is 3/8" larger than the finished size.  You can see that the background wedge is larger than the colored wedges.  Here are the precuts from my hand dyed fabrics:

And the precuts from the background gray and white fabric (Smol Tweed in Dove) designed by Kimberly Kight of Ruby Star Society:

Here are two of the arcs pieced and placed back in place on the design wall.  I will keep using the freezer paper pattern to piece and cut the rest of the circular pieces.

I had a great idea for the background.  It's an ombre fabric from Moda called "Lipstick Cowgirl" designed by Shari Jenkins, and it fades from turquoise to gray.  I bought a little bit of this at  Sharon's Attic a month or so ago, but I needed 4 more yards.  So, I called the store and they had just 4 yards left on the bolt.  What luck!  Now it's on its way to me and I'll be able to use the background that will be just the ticket for this quilt.

I hope you like it so far!