Shades of Gray and Green
45.5" x 54.5"
Pieced and quilted by me
In a mad dash of sewing the past few days, I managed to cross two things of my list at once. I finished my Shades of Gray quilt, made using charm squares from a
swap I hosted last August. This gave me a new quilt to enter in the
Blogger's Quilt Festival and meant that I'd finished my
May Lovely Year of Finishes Goal (9 days early!!). Hooray!
I'm entering my Shades of Gray and Green quilt in the...you guessed it!...two-color quilt category. The quilt is made up of 5" squares--120 of them--and then each square has one cathedral window-style green corner, which creates the curve. I'll post a tutorial on how I did it next week. I used three different greens for the corners.
For the quilting, I free motion quilted three wavy lines through each gray diagonal "stripe." It looked like it was missing something, so I quilted sort of a curved zigzag through the green diagonal stripes as well. Because it's a charm square quilt, there was so much going on with the fabrics that I didn't want the quilting to stand out.
My inspiration for this design came from
this quilt by Megan at Tales of Ineptitude. My original plan for the charm squares had been to make half-square triangles with gray and green, and then do some sort of chevron design. But when I saw Megan's red and gray quilt, I changed my mind. I really liked the effect of the smaller colored corners.
It's been raining all week here, so yesterday I dodged the raindrops and wandered through my neighbors' backyards looking for photography options. So if you see puddles in any photos, that's why. Happily, my quilt dried quite nicely after its rainy morning adventure!
The backing is a gray and white pin dot that I bought on a Frugal Friday from the
Quilting Lodge.
If you haven't already, head over to
Amy's Creative Side to check out the entries in the Blogger's Quilt Festival. It's like your own personal quilt show!
Also linking up to the Year of Lovely Finishes, which prompted me to (start and) finish this quilt during the month of May, and Fabric Tuesday at Quilt Story.
