Sunday, October 4, 2009

Sew and Tell.

Just a quick post to show you the finished Kaleidoscope quilt. I stayed up until 4am last night working on it (was robbed of an hour due to the switch over to Daylight Savings Time) and then got up this morning at about 8am to finish it off. Needless to say I am now in a zombie like state.



The kaleidoscope block presents so many different style options but rather than having strong, definite circles I wanted a scrappy look so the circular effect is subtle and elusive. I am really pleased with how it looks - but it took a lot of unpicking to get there! First I had that light blue colour that read white to unpick, then I decided to make it bigger (not that that involved any unpicking, just the opposite really) and then I fussy cut a border print that just looked wishy-washy (sorry - there are no photos of that blandness). After unpicking that border I made an emergency trip to Hettie's to buy a navy blue fabric for the new border - I like the way that the dark fabric now frames the quilt.


I enjoyed making this quilt and in particular the challenge of the 45 degree triangle pieced border but I couldn't have done it without my side-kick Frasier. I have a 7" DVD player next to my sewing machine and when I sew I play Frasier to keep me company and now I measure a quilt's complexity by how many seasons I get through while sewing it. This quilt has a rating of 3 and a half Frasier's as it took me through seasons 3, 4, 5 and the first disk of 6.


Until next time,

Shontelle.

5 comments:

  1. Wow, beautiful quilt!!!! Worth the sleep depravation!!!!

    Blessings,

    KT

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  2. Your quilt is fantastic. It looks very vintage with the blues. What a big undertaking.

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  3. this is beautiful...the circles in the pattern look amazing. it is well worth the lost sleep i think!!!

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  4. You are so clever!!! Can't wait to see it hanging at Festival of Quilts.

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  5. i LOVE this pattern but have been too scared to try it. i love the blue on white also. i also love frasier.

    beautiful!

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