Wednesday, July 8, 2015

More Kisses

There's always a quandary when it's my turn to be a bee mama and choose a quilt plan for the group. At least it is for me. And it was no different as I mulled over options for FAITH Circle for July. The palette was the easiest - inspired by a flower bed at the airport as we were coming home from a recent trip to visit our son and daughter-in-law. Coral and yellow - totally not my norm, but something about the mix seemed just right.
Though I expect my bee-mates to use mostly prints in these colors, I did check my Kona card to give them a closer idea of the colors I'm looking for: Corn Yellow, Canary, Buttercup, Coral, Nectarine, Mango. And for the record, I'm fine if they use these actual solids too.

After much hemming and hawing, I chose a current favorite around the interweb, Rachel/Wooden Spoon Quilts' Raspberry Kiss block. Below is the quilt that pushed me over the edge. It's by Brittney/bselbyquilting on Instagram, and I appreciate her consent in letting me post it to share with FAITH Circle.
photo courtesy of Brittney Selby

Rachel's tutorial makes a 4 1/4" block, so I asked her if she'd mind if I up-sized it for my bee's use, and she kindly gave permission.

So I'm asking my bee mates to make three blocks following Rachel's tutorial, except with these adjusted cutting directions:
4 - 2 1/2" squares + 2 - 6" squares (cut diagonally) for background
2 - 2 1/2" squares + 1 - 2 1/2" x 6 1/2" rectangle for cross
Note that I stitched my blocks with a scant quarter inch and they finished at 9 1/8".

As you can see in my sample blocks, for the backgrounds, I've also chosen black and white or gray and white low-volume prints, white on white prints, or a very pale gray, such as Kona Ash (not shown). A mix of these is fine in each block.

It's always fun to see the blocks start coming in and here's another quilt to add to the 'to-do' list for next month!

9 comments:

  1. This will be a wonderful quilt!

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  2. so beautiful & thanks for the measurements to make bigger blocks. I have a variation of this block brewing in my head that I'm going to test out today. I'm pretty sure you won't like it, bwahahaha

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  3. Very cute little quilt! Thanks for sharing!!

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  4. Beautiful blocks and I really love those colours! So summery and happy :)

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  5. Oh my!!! These are going to be just gorgeous!! And those are my favorite Kona yellows!! Mangooooo!!!

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  6. We used that block for a VMQG block lotto and it looked wonderful. Great choice!

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  7. Can't wait to see it come together Debbie! And I love the source of your colour scheme!

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  8. I've always like this design and corals are one of my favorite colors. Mixed with yellow it will be a nice cheery quilt.

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  9. Can't wait to see how it turns out!

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