Many beautiful quilts can be made from blocks that are all the same. I've made a few of those myself. They can go pretty quickly, with all those identical blocks produced assembly-line fashion.
The problem with that style of quilt is that pretty much all the creative part happens up front, with the choice of fabrics. Once that's settled, all that's left is craftsmanship.
Don't get me wrong; craftsmanship is a crucial --and very satisfying -- part of quilt-making. It's just not necessarily the most fun.
While we all may have different ideas about what's least fun in quilting (for me it's either basting, marking, or removing basting stitches, depending on which I happen to be doing at the time!), I'm betting there's a considerable consensus about what's the most fun. Playing with fabric, of course!
My Lost Ships quilt is 6 blocks wide by 7 blocks long. That's 42 opportunities to choose fabrics for a lovely little miniature quilt. Forty-two chances to make that brown floral sing, or at least drown out the flat notes in its voice.
So here is a sampling of the blocks. Some are monochromatic (all greens, or all blues), while others use contrasting colors. Most use a light to medium value for the central triangle, but a few have a dark tone there. Some use very sharp light/dark contrast, but a few are rather close-valued. The only constant is that the half-square triangles that make the outer edge of each block are always the lightest value. This is what I'm counting on to keep the variety somewhat unified.
The problem with that style of quilt is that pretty much all the creative part happens up front, with the choice of fabrics. Once that's settled, all that's left is craftsmanship.
Don't get me wrong; craftsmanship is a crucial --and very satisfying -- part of quilt-making. It's just not necessarily the most fun.
While we all may have different ideas about what's least fun in quilting (for me it's either basting, marking, or removing basting stitches, depending on which I happen to be doing at the time!), I'm betting there's a considerable consensus about what's the most fun. Playing with fabric, of course!
My Lost Ships quilt is 6 blocks wide by 7 blocks long. That's 42 opportunities to choose fabrics for a lovely little miniature quilt. Forty-two chances to make that brown floral sing, or at least drown out the flat notes in its voice.
So here is a sampling of the blocks. Some are monochromatic (all greens, or all blues), while others use contrasting colors. Most use a light to medium value for the central triangle, but a few have a dark tone there. Some use very sharp light/dark contrast, but a few are rather close-valued. The only constant is that the half-square triangles that make the outer edge of each block are always the lightest value. This is what I'm counting on to keep the variety somewhat unified.
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