Yarnstorm has a gorgeous quilt on her blog, which renews my belief in simplicity and that I did the right thing with Thoughts on Dots. Her post talks about her pool quilt. Stop reading now! Right click (so you don’t leave my blog completely, thanks) and go read the post on her new quilt top.
Now that you are back and ooohing and aahing, I hope you enjoyed the quilt. First of all, the photograph that she has shared with us is wonderful. It has made me realize that, perhaps, you would be happy with ripples of color instead of the whole quilt perfectly centered with no extraneous info peeking in? Also, the way she talks about the colors and the quilt is like a poem. It reminds me of some writer who I have read recently, or whom I have read in the past and made an impression on me.
The quilt looks like it is made from all of those tightly, yet very soft cottons. I know that is not 100% the case as I have some of the fabrics. I don’t think any of them are loosely woven, though.
I also like the way she has used large scale prints. It seems like some of the flowers are fussy cut (notice the centers?).
I have been thinking about another quilt of squares only and I am inspired once again. We’ll see how it progresses.
I am out of town again. Back soon with photos.
Her pool quilt is really lovely and her words are very evocative. It reminds me of something similar that I have the blocks already cut for – not a pool, but a GARDEN of blocks. All florals. But I can’t decide what to do next. Whether to sew the blocks together or cut them down to triangles first, or maybe something wonky. I want it to have low contrast, but I have both light and dark prints. I made a quilt all in blocks with gradations of color for an ill friend (who sadly, passed away) and I was really happy with the way it came out. Simple (because it needed to be a fast and completed project for obvious reasons) ended up to be a good design decision.
Your garden quilt sounds great. I think you should just sew the squares together. I found squares to be gorgeously effective in Thoughts on Dots. I can’t tell you how much I am enjoying that quilt. I can really see the fabrics and I love them. I say just go for the squares. Just Do It!