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::Design Wall Playdate::

Yesterday and today I got to do something I haven’t done in a long time, play with the book’s techniques and not have a final plan.  That’s right, just my design wall and I had a date.

I pulled from the scraps of Psychedelic Baby, which in turn was made from the scraps from Pantone Pop.  I guess I overbought.

One block has a load of possibilities.

This block is the one I made for Psychedelic Baby and had some leftovers.  This design could go zig-zag or create the rectangles found in Quilting Modern’s Blind Copilot.

How about an hour glass?

Still obsessing a bit over the diamonds.

Then there are these string blocks, going to ‘magic number’ these with some wonky stars, something I’ve always wanted to put in a quilt.  I like the subtle color, but am thinking grass green would give it some pow factor.

More leftovers.  I could zig-zag or rectangle.  They need some added color though and aren’t really on the list.

These scrappy bit beauties are what is really holding my focus though.  I’m thinking of introducing them into a design layout we gave another quilt in the book or maybe it needs something new.

Fun to play isn’t it?  Especially when one doesn’t have to focus on one project, just sew and see what happens.

Wish I had weeks of it.

15 thoughts on “::Design Wall Playdate::

  1. What pure bliss weeks of playing sounds like 🙂

  2. ladybelle says:

    Beautiful blocks–what possibilities!!!

  3. tia says:

    I love what is happening on your design wall! Psychedelic Baby is one of my very favorite quilts by you. I am so happy to see you play with the left overs!

  4. karen says:

    Especially love the hourglass blocks

  5. My Quilting Life says:

    Lots of exciting possibilities….

  6. Dienna says:

    I like the geometry and patterns that you’ve got going on here.

  7. felicity says:

    All of these are absolutely inspiring! Love!

  8. Katy says:

    That sounds like such a fun date! Looking forward to seeing what they all turn into 🙂

  9. Alli says:

    Those look amazing! You have such awesome talent with scraps! 🙂

  10. cinzia says:

    that’s the way i like to play!

  11. Carla says:

    Your blocks are very cool !!

  12. Rachel says:

    Oooh, that looks like a highly fabulous playdate. It’s all very cool. So many directions to explore!

  13. How fun! Can’t wait to see what you come up with when you have more time to just play 🙂

  14. rayna says:

    Hi Katie,
    To me, this is the only way to work — without a plan. Love to see your auditions and look forward to seeing where you go from here.

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