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Home / My Blog / book / ::Design Wall Playdate::

::Design Wall Playdate::

May 9, 2012 By Katie

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.

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  1. Debbie-Esch House Quilts says

    May 9, 2012 at 10:49 pm

    What pure bliss weeks of playing sounds like 🙂

  2. ladybelle says

    May 9, 2012 at 10:59 pm

    Beautiful blocks–what possibilities!!!

  3. Karen says

    May 9, 2012 at 11:00 pm

    Love it!

  4. tia says

    May 9, 2012 at 11:21 pm

    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!

  5. karen says

    May 10, 2012 at 12:23 am

    Especially love the hourglass blocks

  6. My Quilting Life says

    May 10, 2012 at 1:46 am

    Lots of exciting possibilities….

  7. Dienna says

    May 10, 2012 at 3:27 am

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

  8. felicity says

    May 10, 2012 at 4:38 am

    All of these are absolutely inspiring! Love!

  9. Katy says

    May 10, 2012 at 11:15 am

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

  10. Alli says

    May 10, 2012 at 6:44 pm

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

  11. cinzia says

    May 10, 2012 at 9:09 pm

    that’s the way i like to play!

  12. Carla says

    May 11, 2012 at 2:40 am

    Your blocks are very cool !!

  13. Rachel says

    May 14, 2012 at 7:23 pm

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

  14. Chara Michele says

    May 14, 2012 at 8:37 pm

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

  15. rayna says

    May 16, 2012 at 12:51 am

    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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