Father's Day Challenge Quilt - Process Post

This is where the quilt top started. It almost ended here too! I was really tempted to get out my white fabric and go for it. (I did pull out the white fabric in the end, but I don't have a picture of what I did with it - yet!)

I started to add in the blue and white shirt units to make churn dashes.
Again this looks quite modern with its white spaces and now there are some add visual spacings when you look at the rows - look at the middle row of the quilt to see what I mean.

You might also notice in this photo that I moved my sewing machine out of the way! I realized that I was going to end up taking a picture each step along the way in case I liked it better than my original plan.

I really like this one too! I started to play here. I realized that I had put the blue and white churns in the wrong places and decided to see what else I could do with the red stripes. I only have this many pieces of the red fabric.
Having the different blocks - churns and shooflies- in the corners gives this a modern, but quirky utility feel to the top.

Back to my original plans. The red stripe fabric is really strong visually - you can see the stripes better and it's just a darker colour than the light blue and white shirt fabric. It really helps frame the design and to emphasize the repetition of the churn block. Now the white spaces are equal in size again.

Adding on by filling in the background. The blue helps define the blue and white churns. The black looks out of place - just give me a minute! :)

There. The depth of the design is in place. It's like a double background, I guess.
There's an additional border still to take a photo of because the quilt top was just a little shy of fitting in the space I want to hang it.

Here's  a look at my first top in this design. In this one the focus fabric is behind the corner churns. The matching value of the blue and orange fabrics make them vie for your attention!

It's a rainy day here. A photo of the completed top will have to wait another day. I guess I'll keep going on something else!


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With Joy,

Sarah Vee