Little Soul Searching
It's a top!
42 x 60
Why is it called Soul Searching? The inspiration came from a quilt by that name in the book Making Quilts by Kathy Doughty. Her blocks were made with 2.5 inch pieces but mine are made with littler 1.5 inch pieces ---Little Soul Searching.
I started making the 12 x 14 inch blocks last year when I was emptying out my 1.5 inch scrap bin. I ended up with several blocks but not enough for a small comfort quilt. I like to make those roughly 40 x 60.
The other day when I was looking at a few UFOs I noticed I only needed 3 more blocks and I could move this UFO to flimsy stage.
I had my purple scraps out for the Rainbow Scrap Challenge (RSC) so made a purple block.
Then I noticed I could really use an orange block since I hadn't made one of those. But I had very few small orange scraps in the orange scrap bag so pulled those out and then supplemented those with some yellow scraps and mixed them up a bit for this block.
Then I always seem to have a lot of blue scraps so I made a blue block and then there were 15 blocks and I was ready to make a top.
And so I did make a top.
To be continued...and quilted...and sew on...
I recognize some of those blue scraps! It's fun to see the sun shining through a flimsy, highlighting the seam allowances.
ReplyDeleteOoh I like this! So effective, each 1.5” scrap strip is shown up so clearly and, as always, you have some lovely different fabrics.
ReplyDeleteI made one of those with 1.5" strips too and two with the 2.5" strips. It's such a fun block to make, and easy. Someone is going to love that one!
ReplyDeleteI just really love this one--so beautiful--i have that book and often have looked at that pattern and though--someday...Lovely work hugs, Julierose
ReplyDeleteAll those little strips are so beautiful together. The quilt turned out really jewelry like. I love all the colors and values. It is a little treasure.
ReplyDeleteWow!!! that one is so cool! even as a little haha!! ALl those 1 1/2 inch strips!! what a lot of work!
ReplyDeleteOh! My! 1.5" strips! That's a lot of work involved in this one even though it is a simple pattern. It looks so cool with the sun shining through. Well done. ;^)
ReplyDeleteTotally fabulous scrappy soul quilt! The backlit photo makes it look like a gorgeous stained glass window!
ReplyDeleteI've made a Soul Searching quilt several years ago for our bed and it's one of my favourites. Yours with the narrower strips would have taken a lot of sewing. In her pattern, the designer suggested using shades of each colour, from light to dark in each block. I didn't like that idea and used hues of similar value, you seem to have done that too. This is a very striking quilt GOP, well done!
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