It is a constant battle. More new fabric that I cannot resist, more stash, more quilts, more scraps. I need to do some serious stash management and stash busting this year. After all, the use it or lose it mantra still stands in 2016.
If that means that I have to make the occasional Checkerboard Quilt then that's ok, for doing so is not exactly a chore. I love making these simple quilts and get much satisfaction from the fabric play and the routine of the strip piecing.
QUILT STATS
A selection of almost 200 different quilting cottons make up this quilt.
I made 48 16-patch blocks ~ a total of 768 patches of fabric.
Each finished square measures 2.5" x 2.5".
All cotton fabrics, batting and thread have been used.
Quilt top measures 60 inches x 80 inches.
I have chosen to work with a classic color palette this week: red, black, grey, white and a sprinkling of blue. It's hard to go wrong with these colors! I kept the overall palette fresh by using lots of predominantly white fabric (or low volume fabric) and generally alternating these fabrics with a more saturated color fabric.
There is much to see, from birds, cats, and dogs, to fruits, flowers and accessories. I have used many stash basics - small scale prints like dots, stripes, checks - and mixed those fabrics with floral prints, larger scale graphic designs, specialty Japanese imports, Liberty Tana Lawn and a few hand screen printed fabrics. I love to mix colors, designs, and fabric types and styles. It never gets old.
Ready for basting and quilting.
More soon,
Rita
RELEVANT LINKS:
Checkerboard Quilt and Strip Piecing Tutorial
More RPQ Checkerboard Quilts
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You know I love this one. This is the year I start using instead of hoarding my precious kerchief girls.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous, as usual!
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt, I love all the older collections I can recognise in it, like little red riding hood and I think its mormor. Such a great fresh palette :)
ReplyDeleteI always love seeing your quilts, they have a very fresh aesthetic which I really admire! They show such JOY !! and that is a lovely accomplishment.
ReplyDeleteYou have such an eye in selecting great fabric. Want to come to my house and help me? Lol
ReplyDeleteDo you fussy cut any of these strips or is it luck when you get the square picture so perfect?
ReplyDeleteLovely you are sew talented you really should write a book i'dbe first in line tobuyone
ReplyDeleteso beautiful! love how the fabrics really speak with the simple checkerboard quilt!
ReplyDeleteI'm currently decorating my kitchen and living room in red and aqua blue. Love this one.
ReplyDeleteClassic! Love it!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen the red and white stripe with Paris writing. It's like an adult eye spy quilt! Just lovely!
ReplyDeleteThis quilt looked a little different with the black and red more dominant. I made a Checkerboard quilt changing a few things and I absolutely love it. I made mine with Kaffe Fasset fabric and plain white. You always give me inspiration.
ReplyDeleteLove this, as I do all your quilts!
ReplyDeleteI lust after your stash. :-) I'm still much more in the "stash building" than "Stash busting" phase. Which is why I love your Sunday Stash posts - and the vendor updates. It enabled quite a bit of shopping in my jammies this past weekend!
ReplyDeleteAlthough I still have Christmas decor here and there, and New Years is barely begun, I'm going to think like a retailer and gasp, "How perfectly lovely for Valentine's Day!!" Love the little snips of color. Inspiring as always.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I am gonna try to use up my stash too.... I will try.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love the colors of this quilt top Rita.
I follow another blogger and whenever she cuts one 2.5" strip (for example) for a quilt like this, she cuts a second one and puts it with others. Do you always starts from scratch or do you do some kind of pre-cutting like the other blogger?
ReplyDeleteYou have an incredible ability to combine prints! This is so striking and unique! I love it!
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful! Make as many checkerboard quilts as you need! We love them!! I just ordered greys. Haven't had any. Thank you for your encouragement!!
ReplyDeleteLove the colors!
ReplyDeletepretty! As usual, lol
ReplyDeleteI think a good post would be "What do you do with a stash." I see lots of pretty fabrics from a few years past. That cute little girl with the headscarf keeps turning up as do the black and white line art houses. Lovely quilt!
ReplyDeleteAnother winner! As always I want to dive headlong into my bins ; )
ReplyDeleteI just adore your blog post. So beautiful and packed with great information. The links to your tutorial posts are priceless. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI would so love to win the Cat's Pyjamas fabric! Adorable to the max. And as always, love RPQ's quilts!
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