Wednesday, January 2, 2013

More Mondrian Madness

WIP Wednesday at Freshly PiecedFirst WIP Wednesday of the year! I feel I should do a showcase of all the quilts I INTENDED to have finished in 2012. I seem to grind to a halt at quilting stage. But a) it was too hot to quilt and b) I was too hot to drag out all the WIPs and feel guilty over them. So I pulled out the QCA Bee blocks I received and pieced them together instead, using my small Bernette at the kitchen table where I could get a slight breeze from the evaporative air conditioning and stick my head in the fridge whenever it needed it.

It started off looking like this:

It involved A LOT of running backwards and forwards to my design wall at the other end of the house, and a LOT of sewing bits on and slashing them off, arranging and rearranging and but I finally have something to show for it. A full queen-size top in fact!

When I say a Queensize top, I mean it JUST covers the top of the mattress with no overhang, and I MUST have overhang, so there are borders to be added. It took a lot longer than I expected to get the spacing right - both in terms of spacing the blocks and making sure they weren't TOO aligned or too dense in parts and 'bald' in others. But I think I've done it...

Please note, this is Scarlett's first quiltshoot and I didn't pose her! I did pose Melody but as you can see, Monster's patience had worn thin.



I added some black bias binding after piecing to give a bit more random flow and might go back and add a piece or too more. You will have to wait and see what the borders look like (I'm dying to find out too!) but I DO know how I'm going to quilt this one, so hopefully it won't languish in the WIP pile for long!

Thanks for visiting and thanks to Lee for hosting WIP Wednesday!

27 comments:

  1. Oooooh that looks so awesome! I love the way you spaced it out! Amazing. :)

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  2. Hi Laura! Great start for this year! Scarlett is a quilting girl - she knew that was serious work!
    x Teje

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  3. It looks stunning! Cannot wait to see it finished!

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  4. seriously stunning! Look forward to seeing how you quilt this one.

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  5. I love this quilt top Laura! Well done, you've placed the blocks perfectly!

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  6. You've spaced it out perfectly. Looks fantastic. Love it.

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  7. Great job, looking forward to seeing it all finished (partly so I can work out where you stuck that binding...)

    Happy new year!

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  8. I love it. I's like a painting! Perfect.

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  9. Love how you designed the quilt top. Looks fab! From the first picture, I though you stole the Partridge Family bus. (You may not be old enough to remember the TV show from the '70's). ;)

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  10. What an unusual and quirky quilt top. I love it!

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  11. I love it, too! Will be wonderful to see when it is quilted.
    Hugs - Lurline.

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  12. I absolutely love what you did with this quilt!!! I have followed it all along and I was worried... in that "blogland" kind of anonymous concern. I am such an obsessive, horrifying planner that I just couldn't see how things would "match up". I should have known that there was no cause for alarm because you came through with a brilliant idea. Love the trailing edges of the binding to lead the eye to another section - beautiful work and stunning design!

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  13. I love it! this will look spectacular on the bed when it's done. Great job~

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  14. Wow! I really like the look of the quilt. It's really eye catching.

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  15. That's really neat -- I like the way you've spaced the blocks. :)

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  16. Wow, I love the look of this! It reminds me of the older Loreal or whatever hair company used to have a logo with those colors! I am stopping by from the WIP hop, I would love to have you come by and see what I have been up to :) http://domesticdeficitdisorder.blogspot.com/2013/01/wip-wednesday.html

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  17. I liked the first picture....and then scrolled down...and LOVE the finished product! WOW! it is stunning...great job!

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  18. Wow, Laura! This is really clever and gorgeous. Nicely done!

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  19. really captures mondrian well and ended up so nice and big! all that walking back and forth just means you can eat some candy as a reward.

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  20. really captures mondrian well and ended up so nice and big! all that walking back and forth just means you can eat some candy as a reward.

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  21. Beautiful! Such a great modern quilt!

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  22. Can I just say that I love this? :) The extra breathing space around each block is perfect and really does help balance the quilt. Your pups are natural models too. :)

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  23. I love it. And Scarlet did such a great job posing all by herself. Maybe she lost interest after she realised she wasn't the subject of your photoshoot :)

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  24. I love this Laura! Never seen anything like it :)

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