Nightfall QAYG : :

On Friday I started a second quilt using my Nightfall strike offs, this time to show how well the colors of this collection will coordinate with AGF's new denim line. An exciting added bonus for me, since I LOVE these denims so much!



Consequent to finishing that first Nightfall quilt top, I noticed how quickly my strike offs were dwindling. So, for this quilt I decided to feature just one Nightfall print ~ my Bird of Night owls!







I began by fussy cutting a variety of owls with the slate blue-gray background from the Moonrise colorway of Nightfall. These will be at the center of each of the Quick Quilt As You Go blocks I plan to make, framed with little scraps and narrow strips of what's left of my sample fabrics, with lots of solids & denim added in to help me stretch these into a decent sized quilt!



Inspired by this Converging Corners quilt block pattern, I'm constructing these blocks similarly to the courthouse step/log cabin block, with a quilt as you go twist! After I frame each owl with low volume prints and solids, as I work my way out into the corners of each block, I'm adding darker solid and printed fabrics to two opposing corners. This creates a really cool, interesting design once a group of four blacks are put together.





My hope is that by using the Nightfall deep teal & moody blue prints with the added dusky solids and denims for the darkened corners, that the little clusters of dark will look like subtle sparling stars once the whole quilt is finished. I'm just about ten blocks in this morning, I'll be back soon to share how it all comes together!

Happy sewing! 
♡ Maureen