The chartreuse colored roof tops were pieces that came out of the scrap bag just that shape. Here's how I made them fit:
Start by matching the 'roof' to a background strip that is fairly wide.
Sew right sides together, If the strip is long enough you can assembly line the units.
Square off the sky on two sides.
Flip the roofs around and sew the other sides to the space left on the strip. You can see why you want to start with a wide strip.
Iron and trim the other two sides.
It's kind of a spin-off technique from Gwen Marston's liberated techniques. Remember these are all REAL scraps so experimentation is free!
I hope your Spring is going well!
Cheers, Claire W.
Lovely. I'm not sure what they mean by "modern" either, but this looks great.
ReplyDeleteIt's funny isn't it? For the past 20 years I've thought of myself as a 'modern' quilter because I use modern fabrics and don't necessarily follow old patterns...but now Modern seems to mean something else more specific?! oh well, a rose by any other name...cheers!
DeleteI love it! Love the little houses! You made great use of you scraps!
ReplyDeleteThanks Rebecca, yup, sometimes the shape of the scraps just suggest something (like the green roofs) and I just go with it. cheers!
DeleteI love what you did with those scraps... I don't even recognize any fabric either!
ReplyDeleteI know, what a surprise! Well there are a few of your donations in there, thanks as usual. My scrap strategies wuld come to a grinding halt without your contributions! lol, cheers!
Deletehmm modern is anything that doesn't look traditional at the moment ... everything will beocme modern again eventually ... ohh and of course "modern" sells better because it's new ... though I'm still trying to figure out how dresden plates or cray quilts can be "new" having been around for so long ...
ReplyDeleteSometimes modern is simple "not the usual style" of the quilter that calls something modern ... modern can be anything machine appliquéed becasue "real" (=traditional) appliqué is done by hand ..
I would vote for calling the scraps - spring scraps, lots of spring colours in there ... you could probably go with autumn for a lot of the so called traditional fabrics ... ohhh I like that and I can put those huge white quilts with a few splothes of pale fabric (taht are soooo modern at the moment) and call them winter ..
Ohh almost forgot - I like the layout so far - any plans on how to fill in the lower part`?
Yup, a while back I would have said the same about modern vs. traditional but now when I read some of these Modern guild web sites, Modern appears to mean something else?! Certain colors, certain styles of quilting, certain backgrounds...? Oh well I'm just going to keep doing what I do and you (the viewers) can call it whatever you like! Cheers!
DeleteI think the fact that you have upside down peace signs makes it "modern". Old fashioned would be right side up!
ReplyDeleteHey Anne, That's funny! The odd orientations came about due to mechanics more than anything but I did wonder if putting peace signs upside down was some kind of faux pas...but then I decided what the heck! It's the only way it would fit together! cheers!
DeleteWhat a fun quilt!! Looks perfectly free to me:)
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