As always, I was shopping at one of my favorite quilt shops that was having a wonderful sale. Come to think of it, I don’t think I have met many quilt sales that I didn’t immediately like. One of many treasures from this sale was a fat quarter bundle of black and white and red fabrics. The fabrics were from a Blank Quilting 2014 collection. When I saw all the wonderful fabrics in the bundle, I immediately knew I was going to use them in HST (half square triangles).
I added some black and white fabrics from my own stash. With all my fabrics gathered I started cutting squares out of each fabric.
Squares cut, time to sew dark fabrics to light fabrics to make new squares that had both a dark and light fabric. It always amazes me how interesting the new squares look.
The fun and frustrating part was next taking all my two fabric squares and laying them out in an eye pleasing pattern. I laid them all out on my design floor which doubles as my family room floor. Moved about 75% of the squares around, then repeated the process several more times. It always seemed like a few of my squares with the same fabrics ended up touching or too close together. After a day and a half of moving squares I was finally either exasperated with the process or pleased with the layout.
Time to start sewing my squares together. As I have mentioned before I am a twosey, foursy kind of sewist. I sewed my squares in pairs. Keeping everything all laid out on my design floor so I could keep track of what squares went with others. With all square pairs sewn together it was time to make my twosys (2 squares sewn together) into foursys (2 sets of 2 squares).
With the center of my quilt sewn together it was time to add the borders. I knew I wanted to add red to this interesting quilt and I knew I want prairie points but had no quite figured out how they were all going to play together nicely. Originally I thought the prairie points needed to be red but as I looked at my piece center I could see that I had to stop all the pattern from the center so I thought add a black small border then when I auditioned this idea it did not speak to me like adding the narrow red border. And of course because I hoard fabric I found this perfect grey striped fabric that worked perfectly for my prairie points on top of the black border to finish off the quilt.
I am really happy with the way this turned out.
I did all the quilting on my Babylock Solaris sewing machine and it turned out great. Look at all those quilted feathers.
