![]() I don't know why I love green fabrics for binding so much, but I don't fight it anymore. Since the fabrics and piecing are both so busy, a simpler pattern felt like the right choice! Can't go wrong with loops in my book. The quilting design I chose is called Loops and Swirls. I sent the quilt top to Melissa Kelley of Sew Shabby Quilting for longarm quilting. It's funto look back and see all the backdrops I've used over the years. For so long I would duct tape my quilts to the side of our brick apartment building. ![]() ![]() Last month I took this quilt home with me and photographed it on my parent's barn! It's such a reliable photo spot. The finished quilt is approximately 67.5"x75". Here it is, in all it's glory! This quilt has 90 blocks that finish at 7.5" square. I think the color is Parchment, but I am not 100% sure.Īll the pieces for this quilt were cut with the Marti Mitchell Kaleido Ruler*. I paired it with Quilter's Linen* by Robert Kaufman. This quilt is a mix of two collections by Tula Pink*: Neptune and Prince Charming. That's okay though, we don't have to love the process for everything we make! The short version is that from the cutting to the piecing, this just isn't my favorite type of work. I chat more about why I think that happened in this post if you're curious: Work in Progress: Kaleidoscope Quilt. I pulled fabrics for this quilt in 2012, so it has taken nearly 10 years to get this quilt from idea to finish. Regardless, today is the day to finally put this quilt to bed! Then I dragged my feet pulling it all together, for who knows what reason. Have fun designing your own unique version.Happy Wednesday! I can't believe I'm finally sharing this quilt! I actually finished this late last year, but only took photos of it last month. These quilts illustrate some of the layouts you can achieve with simple Kaleidoscope blocks. You can see how that works in the picture below. ![]() That makes her version seem even more complex. Notice how she matched the colors in those corner triangles so that when four block come together a square is formed. Look carefully at Kyndra’s quilt and you’ll see how she used a similar two-block color placement in her quilt. Here are two blocks isolated from Cindy’s quilt. It’s the same block, just the color placement has changed between the two blocks. It’s presented in the form of a quilt-along, so scroll down the page to access each of the tutorials.Ĭlick here for the “Kaleidoscope Quilt” quilt-along tutorials and block template.Įlizabeth’s version seems less complex than the two shown above but that’s simply due to fabric placement.Įlizabeth made every block the same, while Kyndra and Cindy alternated blocks made with two different color placements. Notice how the blocks are larger than in Kyndra’s version and there are fewer of them.Įlizabeth Dackson of Don’t Call Me Betsy provides an excellent tutorial to use in making your own Kaleidoscope quilt. Here you can see just how charming prints are when made up in this pattern. Kyndra was inspired by this quilt by Cindy at Hyacinth Quilt Designs. Batiks and small scale prints would be just as lovely. The solid fabrics glow against each other. We love the vivid colors used in this version by Kyndra at Sewlio. Careful placement of neutral triangles (white, in this case) make the overall design stand out in the quilts shown here.
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