Nightfall & Heartland Stars : :

My favorite thing about Half-Square Triangles is the possibilities they provide! When Heartland, Pat Bravo's newest fabric collection for AGF arrived last week, I knew right away I wanted to combine these colors and designs with my new Nightfall fabrics. Look how pretty!



I pulled a healthy stack of prints, adding in a little Fleet & Flourish, Tapestry, and randoms from my stash to create a colorful bundle of the peachy-pinks, bright & warm yellows, and various shade of blue I'm loving these days. Such a beautiful beginning needed an equally pretty plan, and so I started making HSTs, again!



I divided the assortment into two groupings -- yellows with blues, pinks with the rest, and I got to work! An assembly line of cutting, stitching, pressing, and trimming...









Once I had a good amount of HSTs all finished, I started auditioning quilt block options. There really are so many, but it didn't take too long for me to settle on this pretty star block. I'm unsure of it name? So if you happen to know, please share! I think a pretty star is the perfect match to the theme of these fabrics!



These scrappy blocks sew up to a large 18.5" square -- fun! I'm going to enjoy working on this one! I'll be back soon to show you how the yellows & blues sew up!

XX Maureen

Tuesday Inspiration : :

Black + White + Color

* Rainbow Patchwork Circle * Bedspread * Black and Color Frames * Patchwork Dress * Fiesta * Kei Honeycomb Dots * Methuen1964a * Pattern * Rainbow Brick * Patchwork Pouch 

* A Pretty Perch * Patchwork Pincushion * Color Wheel Quilt Bundle * 

* or Pinterest *

Lately I have been admiring the combination of a rainbow of color with black, and have been noticing it everywhere! I love the way bright colors look with black! How about you?



Late Saturday night after I finished up a few orders, I had some fun piecing together a stack of these patchwork stars. After making the Dresdens for my Mom's pillow, Daisy Janie's Quilt Market booth, and the little half for Haila's Little Red costume, I had been wanting to make more in different shapes, larger pieces, that would come together quicker. I cut a large triangle from a piece of scrap cardboard, started tracing, and cutting into a stack fabrics with black + white + color in mind. I really like the shape it made.

This one I added to some Moda Cross Weave in Wasabi to make a new pillow cover for my BF. The others I am hoping to make into my next quilt.



Again, I noticed a rainbow of color with black in this photo I snapped before wrapping up the orders I shipped out yesterday.



Today, I am wondering what a black or maybe even just a dark grey shade of sashing would like in-between all the colors that make up my Bottled Rainbow Quilt blocks? I realized only yesterday that because of how I have created a design within each block, that I can't have them facing any other way but this way? Which turns out to be different than every finished Bottled Rainbows quilt that I have seen so far.



I have one more row of blocks to finish and then I'll need to figure out how I am going to piece the quilt top together. Got any ideas? What do you think of adding a black or dark grey sashing?

Thank you in advance for your help! I'll be adding this post to this weeks Our Creative Space.
:) Maureen