Friday Finish: Pixelated Pinwheels

I've had this quilt by JeliQuilts pinned since she made it.  I loved the colors.  I loved that it was based on something from Ikea.  I have a thing for triangles.  Basically, I've just been waiting for the chance to make one of my own.  So when it was my turn to pick a block for my do. Good stitches group, I thought this would be perfect.

I asked each member to make a block of nine HSTs in warm and cool colors.  I requested solids, but any saturated, tone on tone print that read as a solid would do.  While they were doing that, I made a pile of single HSTs that I used to blend the two groups together.

Once I had the top pieced, I sent a picture to the group's Flickr page.  We're putting on a special exhibit at QuiltCon, and I just knew this quilt would have a good chance of being selected.  Luckily, it was! So I had to get it quilted and finished so I could send it in time for the show.

I struggled with what do do for the quilting.  The triangles are so angular, so I wanted to do something curvy to offset that, but I wanted something that I would be able to accomplish quickly and successfully.  Somehow, this pattern of tall archy squiggles popped into my head.  (if anyone can think of a better name, you'll win a gold star.)

I love that the straight lines don't take away from all those triagles, but because the squiggles are of random length, it's fun to look at.  I can't wait to see it hanging in Austin.

Linking up with Amanda Jean for Finish it up Friday!

Indian Summer Guild Quilt

So, I didn't make all of this quilt.  The top was pieced by two lovely ladies from my guild, the Seacoast Modern Quilt Guild.  The Indian Summer fabric was given to us by the designer, Sarah Watson, to make quilts for charity.  The solids were donated by Peg, from Sew Fresh Fabrics, who also happens to be a part of our guild.

The fabric was split into four groups for us to make baby-sized quilts to send to Moore, OK.

Both colorways are great, but the Spirit Lake had me with all it's aqua highlights.  And the faces are so cute and creepy and wonderful all at the same time.

My favorite bit is the tepees, especially since my son has started trying to make little ones with sticks in the yard.  I may have to build him one like this one from the Handmade Home.

Anyway...  I was given the top and all the leftover scraps.  I pieced together the back, trying to highlight the three spare blocks that had been leftover from the front.  Then I quilted it with an all over leaf pattern.  It was my first time using this pattern all over (I'd only done little chunks of it before) and I love how it turned out.

After being so confident that I'd have plenty of fabric, I almost didn't have enough to bind it.  I used every single piece wide enough to qualify as binding, the rest was just strings.

Love how this one came out.  And I can't wait to see the quilts from the other groups at our meeting this weekend.