All the Colors
When Joan of MooseStash Quilting announced the Wonderful World of Color Blog Hop, I knew I had to join in. What a great opportunity to use all the colors!
I had a Color Wheel Basics Stash Pack I had purchased from Colorways by Vicki Welsh, and I was eager to use it for this Hop. I grabbed my rotary cutter and got to work cutting wavy strips and sewing them together in the order they were in from the stash pack. My plan was to make a wavy improv mini table runner. I am quite sure I took a photo of the wavy strips all sewn together, but I cannot locate it, so you’ll have to imagine what it looked like.
Well, it just didn’t work for me to stop there. It needed to be used differently. So I pulled out my copy of Scrappy Improv Quilting by Kelly Young of My Quilt Infatuation and paged through it for inspiration. I found one pattern I thought would work. While Kelly uses slabs for her project, I thought I’d try it using wavy strips. It worked pretty well, but I wasn’t sure I really liked it. So I put it away for a few days, thinking I would rip part of it and redo it. When I pulled it back out, I decided it wasn’t so bad after all.
This mini measures 18″ square, a great size for hanging on a wall, using as a table mat, or making into a pillow. Since this hop is about all the colors, I thought I’d use a colorful backing, too!
The binding is a purple batik from my stash that I thought worked really well.
This has been such a fun Hop. I hope you’ve been following along this week. Joan has done a great job of highlighting each quilter each day, so stop over and give her a comment or two of thanks for all her work! You can find all of the links on her blog.
Here’s a list of today’s bloggers for the Hop. Make sure you stop by their posts for more inspiration! Just hover over the link, click and it will take you there.
Happy reading and stitching, all! Enjoy all the colors today, whether it be with needle and thread or otherwise!
Wendy
Thursday Thoughts
35 Comments
Barbara J Stanbro
Oh, I *love* this. All that color, and I like the black and white background as a juxtaposition to the color.
Karen
You have certainly captured all the wonderful colours in your pretty project.
Rebecca
Your wavy strips work wonderfully in the mini.
Cindy Pieters
Wendy I think your wavy strips work perfectly in your project! Well done!
Joan
Oh my goodness, how could you have ever NOT liked it??? It’s awesome. Every detail is just so much fun to look at and the wavy stripes just add to it. I love that backing too. You have rocked the WWOC world!
inflorescencedesigns7f538ce9d0
It is so beautiful! I love it. The colors and especially the patterned background. Thanks for sharing!
Cocoa Quilts
You are becoming the wavy line expert! It is so colorful and happy!
mspdesignsusa
Great project! I like seeing all the colors together.
Carol Kussart
Sweet! I like the colorful wavy lines and the background fabric is perfect for it. You chose a great backing and binding too. Thanks for sharing your project!
texasquiltgal
Wow I’m glad you decided to put it away for awhile and not rip it out – it’s awesome! I love the gradated colors and black/white background together, that’s always a good combo IMO. The backing is perfect!
Selina
What a great use of your wavey fabric. It is amazing how when you put things down for a bit you see them in a whole new light when you revisit. Love the block you choose and the backing. Just perfect.
Vicki in MN
I am glad it worked out for you in the end. I’d say it fits the theme of this hop perfectly! That backing just screamed to be used in this project.
Mari
Super cute, bright, and happy! Why stick with one color when you can have something as interesting as this? Your background fabric fits it really well, too. Happy spring!
Brenda @ Songbird Designs
I love your wall hanging Wendy! I think it’s perfect for this hop!
Carla
What a great mini and so colorful. It all worked out and you have a great wall hanging to enjoy for sure.
Daryl
Those wavy strips look great! I think I need to give that a try.
nanacathy2
What a colourful piece. Love the backing fabric.
Karrin Hurd
Beautiful quilt, I love the backing!
Beaquilter
what a great little quilt! and a fun backing too!
lynn bourgeois
Love those wavy strips Wendy. This is so creative, and so much fun. Thanks
sewswift
I think it is a beautiful mini quilt! I love all the wavy strips and colors. Thanks for sharing, Wendy!
quiltinggail
Scrappy Improv is full of inspiration and I think you did a marvelous job with your slab! And the backing is perfect! 🙂
Nettie Sews
I like how you sewed the improv strips. A very lovely, useful and colorful mini!
Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl
Wow, those improv color blocks are so beautifully pieced that I thought it was a print when I started reading the blog post. I really love the black and white print that you paired the bright colors with.
lapaylor
gosh I like that backing…
Helen
Perfect balance of straight & curvy, organic & geometric… very “you.”
Lj Meyers
I love your little quilt, just so sweet and colorful. Your experience with thinking you might rippit, rippit is what everyone should do when they quilt. It’s amazing how a bit of time makes the quilt look much better. 🙂
Diann@LittlePenguinQuilts
Wendy, I love that! That’s one of my favorite designs in Kelly’s book, and such a perfect use of your hand-dyed fabric. The backing is wonderful, too! Hope you have a special place to hang this one!
Danice G
Very pretty quilt, and back. Kelly’s designs are all all nice, and I want that book too.
Carol Andrews
Another beautiful improv piece Wendy. I love it!
marissthequilter
Yes! I like it and I am sure it has been cheering during the dull days of winter.
Colette
I love your wavy strips and the quilt ended up fabulous!
MrsV
Great piece. At first glance, I thought it was just a single piece of fabric you had used, then after reading I realized that you had pieced it. I love it! I really like the consistency of the 4 major triangles and then having the other things be a bit more random. It looks especially great with the black and white fabric.
Alycia Quilts - Quiltygirl
Super colorful!! what a fun piece!!!
Lynn Huenemann
I absolutely love the challenge quilts. But once they are made, what do you DO with them?