C4 Quilts: rejig

Trying to sort out Design Seed color palettes based off the solids that I have:

Steel - Deep Sepia
Slate - Periwinkle
Ash - Bone
Iron - Metal

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Cousin M: mid-thirties, adventurer, does a lot of rock-climbing. So I was thinking something that carries the idea of the mountains and the rocks and the wild.

Iron: Wander Tones




Cousin P: early-thirties, office professional, gamer-quiet. He and his gf are living in their grandparents' old house (heritage listed, the family can't sell it for love or money), and apparently they have whole gaming campaigns up on their living room wall.

Slate: Shuttered Hues




Cousin K: v early-thirties, professional photographer, stylish. She's always beautifully put together in a casually elegant way, and does

Steel: Color Shore



Alts:
Steel: Color View
Steel: Flora Tones


Cousin P: late-twenties, bubbly, fashionable

Ash: Urchin Pastels



Alt:
Ash: Mental Vacation

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Seriously, though, I'd forgotten how much fun it is to play with color boards!

First Monday Of The Month: October

Gee, I'm really terrible at this business of keeping up the blog. I missed August's first Monday so turned it into the last Monday, then I completely forgot about September!

Anyway, we're back. Hopefully to be a bit more productive these next three months; there are things which must be done!

1. Cousin Quilts - a change in direction

I was planning to gift a set of four penny patch quilts to a quartet of cousins. The cousins are all in their 30s, one is getting married at the end of this month. We're not hugely close - I think the affection is more on our side than on theirs.

However, this morning I thought about it and, looking at the design and fabric I've chosen - traditional in Traditional fabrics - I'm doubtful that that's going to be in their style.


It's a great pattern, maybe a bit busy with this fabric, just probably not everyone's thing.


Instead, I was thinking of something like The Flight Quilt (as rendered by Joanne's Design, although she indicates that she got the idea from a quilt that was labelled 'Simple' but didn't have any attribution to it). It can be done in a variety of colours and with either colours or a neutral as the background.


In Kona Solids, because I still have the better part of 200 FQs of Kona Solids and I'm pretty sure I can work out a way to use them like this.

I'd colour co-ordinate them according to the style of the cousin in question. M would be rich earth colours, P would be bright-saturateds, K would be stylish and elegant, and P would be pretty yet classic.

What am I going to do with the Penny Patches? Dunno. Thought I might give them to a friend's family, but...really not sure it's their style, either. I mean, they'd be happy with it anyway, but...hmf.

Oh well, more quilt tops at any rate.

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Otherwise, for Halloween I was planning to make curtain fronts for the lounge room and maybe the study using Tula Pink's De La Luna (which takes inspiration from the Día de Muertos celebration of Mexico), using the Penny Patch pattern again.

The major things vying for my attention right now though are: the garden, the fiction writing. Oh, and the cats.


But that's usual for cats.

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I should probably make an icon and a banner or something, shouldn't I?

2019 Q3 Finish: C4 Quilt #1

Finish Along Q3 Goals

I said I only finished one goal, but I finished a part of another.

Six: Cousin P's quilt

This is the first of the cousin quilts: grey and green with black highlights.



There's also pink and grey with dark blue highlights, orange and grey with green highlights, and grey and green with blue highlights. Still don't know who is getting which quilt yet. Don't even know if they like the style, so that might be a bit of a Russian roulette.

Still, one more quilt top done.

2019 FAL: Q4 goals

A lot of retreads this quarter; I didn't get much done in Q3.

One: Mum's laptop sleeve

Christmas 2019!



Two: Halloween curtains

Tula Pink De La Luna in a Penny Patch Quilt (Quilt Along Link: Stitched In Color 2013).

Penny Patch quilts are actually pretty fast, and this one has a deadline - the end of October (obviously).

Three - Six: the four-cousins quilts

Four quilts for four siblings in Moda's Rooftop Garden line, in the Penny Patch pattern.

Quilt 1: Finished!

Quilt 2: WIP

Quilts 3 and 4 are cut but the pieces haven't yet been put together. They just need to be done by Christmas I think.

Seven: One more UFO

I just want to finish one more UFO. That's all.

2019 Q3 Finish: Soroptimist Raffle Quilt

The only finish I actually managed this quarter, although I have made a start on the Cousin P quilts at least!


Finish Along Q3 Goals

Four: Soroptimist Raffle Quilt


Fabric line is Joel Dewberry's Notting Hill, I didn't use a pattern, I just made blocks and fitted them together.

Done and raffled and the person is apparently very happy with it.