Luciferous

Luciferous is now a quilt top (aka flimsy).

SO very far from my original idea, but so completely "me."

To assemble the top I stitched sets of rows (3 then 4 then 4 again) instead of working from the top to the bottom.

MUCH easier to work with.

This is the bottom set of four before the final yellow row was added.

I am really, really happy with the way this came together.  

The top measures 57 inches wide and 66.5 inches long.

Before putting Luciferous into the "waiting to be quilted" closet, I made some notes to myself about how I want to piece the back.

A week or so ago I realized that this backing, originally intended for Razzle-Dazzle, was actually better suited to Luciferous.

(Tropical Flair by Hello Angel for Wilmington Prints)

The Rollicking Robots "Glitch" yardage by Patrick Lose will be used for the binding and also for the inserts in the back.

Luciferous will definitely be a colorful scrappy happy quilt.

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You can read the rest of the winding back story by visiting my blog and using the Luciferous label at the end of this post.

Quiltdivajulie

Color Palette Challenge - So Many Options

 

The newest AHIQ challenge involves 

choosing a color palette.

I looked back through my previous quilts

and some of my pending projects since

I love working from an inspiration image/idea.

The fabric pull above was inspired by 

this much-loved photo of my grandson.

This is a fabric pull for a possible project

that I have named Sapphire.

It was inspired by this photo of Little Man.

This free pieced barn quilt

hangs in our foyer.

(one of the quilts made when I

was doing trunk shows for my book)

It was inspired by this photo

taken as I drove home from St. Louis.

I tore this ad out of a magazine

because the combination of textures

and colors caught my eye.

This was the first of three quilts

inspired by that image.

These are the other two that now

 live with my sister and her husband.

(clearly I cut way too many HSTs)

The palette for Dumpster Diving 10 - Do Tell . . .

. . . was inspired by this idea.

This is Namaste - made for our younger son's 40th birthday.

It was inspired by this photo from a street festival.

I made Happy Strings during a 

PINK and ORANGE challenge with my friend Lynne.

This glorious iris from a gardening catalog

had a strong influence on my color palette.

This is The Kitchen Door quilt.

When I was painting our front doors red,

I shared this photo on Instagram (not there any longer)

and a friend commented that it should be a quilt.

I agreed with her.

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With all of that said/shown,

I'm still pondering how I want to approach

this new challenge . . .

All in good time.

Quiltdivajulie