Mod Nautical Quilt in Red --- horizontal over-sized blocks and backing

Mod Nautical in Red

Modern Quilt, Nautical in Red --- using horizontal over-sized blocks.

This is basically a quick quilt using 6" width strips any length you feel looks good and sewing them together.  Play with color balance, lengths of each block while keeping all the widths constant.  Putting a limit on what you are doing helps you concentrate on working through the quilt quickly.  Here I focused on two things:  nautical and the color red.  It's a great way to use some of those prints that you have no idea how to work with... like themed designs and still keep them looking fresh and interesting.  The companion quilt to this one is a vertical version that I did using navy as my focus color that I posted previously.

On the back, I like to take the opportunity to do something fun.  Whether it's using up the scraps from the front of the quilt or like in this one, doing something interesting for the sake of interesting.  Here I fell for the really large red and white print that reminded me of waves... and worked from there.  And look at the bold aqua blue with white polka dots fabric...how fun!!

3 LB. Lobster Dinner quilt update

4 Bird Quilt using Ruth B. McDowell's piecing method

Bird Quilt, piecing by the Ruth B. McDowell method

Right side of Bird Quilt

Teapot wall hanging ...

Here the pieces are laid out on my design wall board to check placement.  All the teapots will be hand appliqued.

Dear Jane Quilt update

This is my Dear Jane Quilt before adding the scalloped border.  I was concerned about the quilt being too rose/peach tones but then added the triangle border with some additional very bold triangle fillers helped to balance it for me.  This quilt is meant to be viewed up close.  There's a lot going on purposefully. :-)

Projects in various stages