My friend Justin, from Keaton Quilts, is running a quilt along for his East Village Vibrance quilt pattern. Have you seen it? He has designed a beautiful quilt, and I decided to join in. Quilt alongs are fun! (And often have prizes.)
My first step was to chose my fabric. Of course, I went with Island Batik. I chose to use my 10″ stack of Cascadia, and then combined it with black solid. What do you think?
Cascadia precuts are in stores now. Yardage won’t be shipping for a few months.
So far I’ve prepared my 1/2 square triangle (HST) units, planned the color flow for the quilt, and pieced a few blocks. The most laborious part for me is always trimming my HST units. It is so boring. To help speed this up, I ordered a 6.5″ Bloc Loc ruler. The Bloc Loc helps me keep my blocs more accurate, and it is very quick to use.
This is my color layout for the quilt. I’m really loving it.
I’m really happy to see this quilt come together. I’ve got six blocks assembled so far, and they look great.
The full quilt will be revealed in April, just in time for our creative borders and binding challenge. I need to come up with a fancy edge treatment for this beauty!
Ooh, that is going to be delightful! I look forward to seeing it come together.
I hate trimming HSTs for the boredom factor. The BlocLoc does help. That is going to be a very pretty, vibrant quilt!
Thanks, Wendy! I am not in love with trimming, either. But it does make for such a nice, flat quilt.