How funny that I was already in the middle of completing an hourglass quilt when the
new prompt came out! It's a very simple throw quilt that was made to be used for the Christmas season, so already well in the works.
Ann said that I should post it here, so why not! Hopefully there will be time to get it quilted and ready for use by next December.
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| A simple hourglass throw quilt |
The colors were chosen based on some of these lighter greens that I've been attempting to use up and get out of the way. At first I thought to use a darker cream fabric, but together with some of these muddy looking greens, started looking very mushy together, even if only in a stack together. So glad that I found enough of these lighter white creams to use as they were probably the only color that would have made sense with these odd greens.
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| Just a little bit of value change in the greens |
As I said in the
long, rambling blog post, it's probably good that the red border was added as well. Definitely helps make everything look a little more interesting! For this particular quilt, I just wanted a very, very easy way to use up a lot of the green and not be too cheesy holiday looking. Very happy with the overall simplicity and look to this quilt. Lots of ideas running through my brain for a good response to this latest challenge. I think it will take a while to narrow down and settle on one! Very simple block, but potentially, dozens and dozens of ways to implement this design into a quilt.....
5 comments:
Your timing is impeccable!
Great start indeed! The red border does spruce it up a bit and gives it a Christmas-y feel.
Classic hourglass, lovely work.
It’s such fun when so many of us have the same basic block in progress. There are ma multitude of ways to sew them. I love how yours invigorates your old greens. They look new to me.
A great result from using up your "odd greens". I like its sophisticated simplicity.
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