Inspired by the work of Maria Elkins, Jean Wells, and Marianne @ The Quilting Edge, I've been wanting to do more improv and work with more complex colour palettes, so I pulled out a pile of solid scraps in the blue, purple, grey and lime greens. I started with the grey, white and black scrap pieces leftover from my laptop tutorial with Sew Sisters Quilt Shop and began building improv blocks.
It quickly became apparent that it was not one piece but three. Hmm, so much for a complex colour palette. LOL!
I'm back and forth on these; one moment I like them and the next, not so much. I'm told that's often the case with improv so I'm just going to keep going. It's fun!
I'm thinking that the palette I had originally selected would have worked if I hadn't started with the grey, white and black sets. I think the white is the problem here -- the white gives the pop that the lime green was supposed to. Pesky value issue! Oh well, something to try next time.
Other blocks from this series:
- Confetti
- Lucky Pieces
- Modern Butterfly Block
- How Many Squares?
- Pinball Machine
- It's a Stretch
- Pogo Stick
- Everything Equal
- Woven Block
- Alleyways
- Boxed In
- Scrappy Asterisk
- Higgledy-Piggledy
- Binary
- Pebble Beach
- Parisian Star
- On The Fence - Modified
- Sew Mama Sew's October Block of the Month
- My Fibonacci block
- Diamond Ripples
- Four Acres
- Mondrian
- Sew Mama Sew's January Block of the Month
- Fractured Triangles
- Garden Lattice
- Selvage Strings
- Follow The Leader
- Sea Glass Steps
- City Sampler #1
- Stuck in the Middle
Love the lime green in there WITH the white - keep going - it will be stunning!!
ReplyDeleteSooo fabulous....so nice to know my work inspired you!!
ReplyDeleteI agree with liking them one minute and then, not so much, the next. I think these improv blocks are difficult to make. I love your blocks, btw.
ReplyDeleteThese are so beautiful, and thank you for all of those links!
ReplyDeletep.s. - LOVE your new blog header :)
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