Paintbox Update

As of late, other projects have taken me away from Tori's Paintbox Quilt. But last night I managed to do 4 blocks. I shuddered at the thought of a brown block, but since it *is* a paintbox quilt, I need one!

The thing about patchwork, is that when you do it one block at a time, it doesn't seem so bad! I did these yellow ones a few weeks ago, but forgot to blog about them.

To make myself feel better I laid out all that I had done to see what colours I still needed to do.

Tori couldn't help herself, she wanted to be in the picture. She did help me lay out the coloured squares!

I have some lilac, hot pink and light green blocks to do and then we need to purposefully fill in the gaps rather than just using what I am finding in my stash. Getting there, one block at a time.

Tori's Quilt Block Pairs 6 - 9

I stole some time away the other night to do some more blocks for Tori's Quilt. Even though I am swamped with everything, I stole 2 hours to do 8 blocks.

Out of all of them the orange one was my favourite.

Tempted to get more of the orange fabric as I think that it looks quite lovely with all the swirls.

Edit: Oh Fransson has some quilting bundle packs to give away, head on over to her blog and post a comment!

Paintbox Quilt Update

I decided to go with the current block design for the Paintbox Quilt. I spent far too long fiddling with colours from my Kona roll and the fabric I had, and then decided to take the advice of Elizabeth and go for monochrome prints. I think that they look better than what I started with, vibrant. I might not be able to use all the quilt fabric for Tori's birthday in this one, but it will look good and I have other ideas for a picnic blanket for her with the rest of the fabric.

The bat fabric is a Kokka Echino print from a few years back, I generally use this print to do baby shoes.

So I have done 5 sets or 10 blocks so far. The first one took me ages, until I found my rhythm. Now it takes me about 20 minutes to do 2 blocks, providing I don't get distracted! I am going to do the 32 colour Paintbox Quilt, with the new design ... so 5 colours down!

I do two blocks at the same time. Using two 2 1/2 inch strips I cut out 3 pattern and 2 block colour squares and then I sew them in tandem. Measure, Cut, Pin, Sew, Press, Trim if needed.

I work from the inside out and then with the left over pieces of fabric I quickly stitched them together and pressed them out so that perhaps I can make a mini-quilt from them one day.

I took the blocks along to my inlaws on Tuesday night and my daughter took a liking to the mini-blocks that I had done and spent ages sorting through them on the table and playing with them. I figure by the time the Single Bed Quilt is finished, I will have enough mini-blocks for either some matching cushions or perhaps a cot quilt for my shop.

Paintbox Quilt-a-long

The daughters new "big girl" bed has been ordered, so I should hurry up and finish that quilt that I started ages ago.

Timing being what it is, Oh Fransson is having another paint box quilt along. Make 8 quilt blocks a week, which turns out to be 4 colours a week and upload what you are doing to the flickr site.

For this quilt the goal is to use the quilt fat quarter stash that she got given for her first birthday and then some of the materials that I use for Konstant Kaos. Between the two stashes, I shouldn't have to go out and buy much until I get to the blocking and sashing part of the quilt.