What better wall art
for a sewing room than this bright, inspiring quilt?
I love to display my
quilts so I rotate them often. This one has sixteen 8” blocks,
made with four-patch squares and half square triangles. The
background fabric is a cream and black Moda print scattered with
positive words. I chose a different bright color for each spool. On two
corners, I set squares of grape with white dots, creating a secondary
design.
Simple Spools is 32”
square and bound with a black swirl print. The backing is a colorful
crazy quilt print in purple, black and yellow. Cutting and piecing
was quick and easy with the Accuquilt value die. With this one, It's important
to stack the fabric so that the words face the same way in each
block. I quilted in cream thread, swirling across the center of
each spool, about a half inch apart.
Putting together a
quilt is kind of like working a puzzle...all the pieces have their
place and have to fit together in the end. Of course, puzzles have a
set design and you have to have all the pieces to finish it. Quilts give you more leeway because pieces can go together many different ways to make
unique designs. If one doesn't fit or doesn't look right, you can
just make another or rotate the block. That's why I like designing in EQ8 software or
manually on my design wall. It is fun and challenging to create new
arrangements with the same basic pieces.
If you don't like
the rules,
make new ones
