Big Wheel

I'm still coming up with a name for this one.

I bought a big 10degree wedge that I really wanted to try out.  At the VMQG meeting at Trout Lake, I won a 1/2 meter of Cynthia's newly designed fabric. The wedge is about 20 inches long, so I cut the fabric in half at the centre fold, then cut out all the wedges I could.  I then cut out white wedges and sewed them all together, alternating the fabric and the white.

I needed 2 more coloured wedges, so I went through my solids looking for scraps and I pieced together two more wedges - can you figure out which?

 It took a while to decide on the colour for the background.  I went with Kona Curry, the colour that sets off anything and everything.  It's such a fantastic colour!  I chose a dark blue as the binding as it matches the blue in the featured fabric.  Since I had to go to Spool of Thread to get the blue, I bought a strip of the featured fabric so I could do something on the back. 

The big circle and the rectangles on the back are purposely off centered.  It's artistic, really!

This is the "grown-up" quilt for a 14 year old boy, William.  His mom threw away his baby quilt after the dogs ruined it.  William was upset when he found out, so my dad asked me to make him a replacement quilt that William could keep through his adult life.

I just need to show this off at the guild meeting and get some photos off to Cynthia, the fabric designer.

Hope Valley Wonky Squares

I fell in love with the colours and patterns in Denise Schmidt's Hope Valley line.  There's 8 coordinating fabrics and they come in three colour ways.  Fiesta is in orange and pinks, New Day in blues and grays and Piney Woods in yellow and green.

 I bought  half yards of the Fiesta and Piney Woods groups on Etsy.  Inspired by this set of quilts from Film in the Fridge, Here are my versions.

The orange and plum reminds me of the Tibetan monks that live in exile in India.  The little squares sort of represent prayer flags that you see tied on string hung between posts or rock piles in windy places in the mountains there.  It makes me want to visit India again! 
Diana Vreeland (editor of Vogue in the '60s) once said, "Pink is the navy blue of India."  I guess that means if you want to be conservative and not stand out in India, wear pink.

The Piny Woods colour way one has less going on for the background and ended up a lot bigger than the other.  I found the perfect colour for the background at Spool of Thread in Vancouver.  This is where the Vancouver Modern Quilt Guild meets on the third Thursday of the month.  They amazed us by buying the ENTIRE range of Kona solids!!  Every single colour that Kona has!!!  That's over 200 bolts of the most amazing range of colours.  It's so great to be able to walk into a store with a finished block and find just the right shade for the sashing or backing.
I ran out of the light green at the bottom left, so I pieced some little rectangles to fill in the empty spaces.  The blocks are quite big, were really randomly pieced and are all different sizes.  I just added the mid green around them in different widths to get them to even out so they would go together.  Then I ran a thin olive frame around outside to give them a boundary.  I didn't do a lot of planning, but I did try to balance the squares and the layout.

These are only tops so far.  I'll have to make backs for them and get them quilted.