Saturday, November 19, 2011

The Planning Stage

Tonight I spent an hour or so in the planning stage of a new quilt.  I love this part – pure creativity.  I open Adobe Illustrator and just mess around in it for awhile.  I knew I wanted to try another version of this quilt – with white background fabric and a little more openness.  This is what I ended up with tonight:
  stars abound final


Each star block is finished at 8.5” just like in the first version.

Version 2 has the same number of stars as the version 1 quilt:


olivesmomma 3

…but with the stars spread out a little, it makes a toddler size quilt into a throw size.  Perfect! 


Usually at this point I do all of the math to figure out how much fabric I need.  Then I print out the “sketch” of the quilt, along with the fabric requirements list and put it in a folder.  Then the folder and I head to the fabric store to find some inspiration.  This time I found what I needed online – awesome. 


I found these fabrics on sale – a great sale too!  [here]  Now I just have to wait for it all to arrive in the mail!


   tidbits and treasures


The quilt will eventually end up in the shop.  As I work on it, I’ll post photos of it’s progress and (of course) the completed quilt before it finds a new home.

5 comments:

  1. I love those colors!!! Are they all from the same line? Looks like it will be an awesome quilt!

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  2. Aren't they great? Yes, it's the Treasures and Tidbits line by Robert Kaufman.

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  3. Will the new quilt have a bigger middle part of the star like in your drawing? It makes the stars look more star like, I like it!

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  4. Impressive! Reminds me of a quilt I blogged about on Monday. Similar, but different. I love the fun of planning and creating quilty things! (And for me, the chance to make & sell something just means I get to do more creating, which is great!)

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