Triangular Bits of Fabric Fun! UPDATED

In the Spring 2013 issue of Fons and Porter's Easy Quilts, there is a pattern by Alison Tudor, Cascarone.  I kept going back to this page in the magazine and dreaming about making this quilt in a different color way.  I have been wanting to do a gray and aqua quilt for sometime now and this is going to be it!  

Up early this morning, about 4am and started pulling fabrics.  18 fat quarters of fun...all containing that magic aqua color that I wanted to feature in this quilt.  

Several breaks later...with a pause for a chick flick movie on my tablet and some hot tub time with my dear husband...I have completed all 18 of the large blocks and I am onto the 36 small ones.  I will need to cut out 72 of the Kona Cotton background fabric first, so it will be a bit before I start sewing again, but I was having fun this morning fussy cutting all my triangles!  And I love the Aqua with the Gray!  Makes me happy.  I'm always in my happy place when I am sewing.  

If you want to make a quilt like this, the pattern is on the Fons and Porter website at this link:  http://www.fonsandporter.com/articles/Cascarone__easy_colorful_triangle_quilt

And it is also available in their Spring 2013 issue of Easy Quilts.  

The quilt in the magazine has a confetti feel to it as you can see above.  And I love it in the white, but not real practical in the forest.  I think the gray with the aqua will look very modern.  We'll see.  I'll post some more pics when I get further along!

Got some more done on my blocks tonight, all the triangles are finished now and I have cut all the solid squares that I can get out of my remaining fabric.  I still need 13 more solid blocks to assemble my quilt top.  I'll have to dig tomorrow, I'm done for today.  I'm excited to get this one put together tomorrow!  More to be revealed!

Top is finished!  It was a bit overcast when I took this photo so the bits are not popping like they do in "real life".  So happy with how this turned out, quick and fun.  She does not put a border around her quilt, but I'm thinking I may order up some more Kona cotton and put a border on this.  Each fabric is different and fun.  You could make this quilt up in so many fun color ways.  I'm going to back this will a silvery gray minkie and then quilt it very simply with straight lines, I think this one calls for a "modern" quilting approach.  Should be lovely to snuggle under.

My First Entry In The Colfax Quilt Show

This quilt was a mystery quilt that I saw on TV one day and so I purchased the pattern and the fabric, went over to my mother's house and stitched it up in a couple days. I absolutely love it. Very traditional and I have two of my favorite colors in here, green and red. Oh how vanilla I am sometimes. The quilt was machine quilted. I remember the look on my mother's face as I put it together, she was so amazed that I could do something like that. She passed away in 2006 from cancer. This quilt will always remind me of her. I did get a ribbon for it!

The Start of Something

This was the initial start of a quilt. I had it pinned carefully on my white board, to see if I liked the lay out. The cat did not. So she carefully took it all apart for me while I was sleeping. I was so frustrated that I put it away for a while.

Color Selection Method

This picture illustrates one of the methods that I use to select fabric colors for my quilts. First select a fabric that you really like. Along the selvage you will see the color run printed as little circles of color. Select other fabrics in those colors and you really cannot go wrong. This is a simple and quick method, doesn't require a lot of thinking and you get great results.

Sometimes, you will find a fabric and you just love the colors, but you don't necessarily want to work that main fabric into your quilt...again, just use the color band on the selvage as your palette indicator and you can pull together the color combination that you like.