After visiting Sr. Pugmire's quilt group in San Diego and seeing the exchange quilt they made, I emailed for the pattern. In hindsight, it is a lot of work for low impact. I didn't know that then and commmitted a few (in the end about 8) in the Del Mar quilt group to take part in the exchange (with romantic dream of the terrific fabrics we'd share). We made half-square triangles, quarter-square triangles, and just squares. I think I'll like it better later. For now, this is the second scrappy quilt I have finished in a short time. I even made it smaller than it should be because I was done. We divided the exchange into two parts over a year. We did half the exchange in June and half in November. Click on the images for a closer picture.
The idea is to have light and dark fabric, but no medium, as the contrast makes the pattern. I found I had mostly medium fabric in my stash. If you love scrappy quilts, this will be a good one for you. There are so many fabrics in the quilt. I tied it with a couple strands of olive green floss (leftover from the embroidery on our wedding quilt . . . this to come next week!). We used it at a ward picnic. I love seeing the blankets people bring to picnic on!
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Oh I hope you'll like your quilt better soon. It was surely lots of work and though the effect is not visible from afar you can see all those little bits of fabric when you look more closely.
Well done :o)
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