I think a lot of things when I see a quilt design. I think I love it, I think it's pretty, and sometime.. I think I REALLY need to apply MY fabric to that pattern and see how it looks.
The latter is what happened when I spotted this pattern called "Movement in Squares". It is a free pattern found HERE.
I was really curious about this quilt.. it has a super interesting layout... so I thought ... What would MY fabric picks and ideas look like made up into this quilt? What would any self respecting quilter do?
I pulled fabric! Then I share this pile of fabric at my Facebook group here.. and the other one here. and at my online Quilt Bee HERE. BUT .. I didn't tell you what it was for, just showed you the collection and asked what you thought.. your comments were very interesting! Loads of opinions on what didn't fit, what you would change.. from 'change nothing'.. to scrap it and start over.. LOL!
Here is the result of that fabric collection.. with a few tweeks
I LOVE this blue fabric... it's a texture from Moda, I had a whole bolt that I've been using up.
I REALLY like it... It's a present. Remember when Jennifer Keltner and I chatted on my radio show the first of the year about our goals for 2014? (CLICK HERE to listen). One goal was to give more quilts? That might sound odd to many of you who make lots of quilts for others. But when you work in the industry, you don't actually make many quilts you can giveaway, most of my quilt making is for publication.
So this is a quilt to giveaway. I basted it last night.
What are you working on this month?
PS .. You can get in on one of my giveaways HERE and HERE.. hurry!
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