Improv Technique 8......Design Wall

These are some blocks I created back in April

Improv Style

This is what they looked like the last 

time you saw them...

They are basically a log cabin style block

with only 3 sides instead of 4...

You just keep adding wonky strips

on 3 sides...

They remind me of arches...

I got them back out last week

and put them up on the design wall:

They are in no particular order...

I just put them up on the wall to see

what I had to work with...

and also to see how big of a quilt top

they would create...

I think I have enough for a lap quilt...

there are more blocks on the table.

I will begin moving them and tweeking

them around and see what happens.

I could use a new lap quilt so...

I am motivated!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn

Improv.....Quilt Top

I spent March, April and May

creating lots of FUN improv blocks...

All of the fabrics are hand dyes I found at the bottom

of the scrap bin:

3 1/2 inch blocks

4 inch random strip blocks

4 inch floating triangle blocks

Wonky flying geese blocks

4 inch criss cross blocks

There were lots of small bits of hand dyes

 at the bottom of the scrap bin,  

so I pieced them together into long strips...

Then I inserted the pieced strips into

random strip units

It was great FUN putting all of the

improv blocks together...

I added lots of non-pieced solid strips

to quiet down the composition...

Improv piecing gets busy very quickly...

the solid strips give the eye a place to rest.

The bright borders help to lighten up

a somewhat dark composition...

At this point it measures approximately

48 inches square...

there are more improv blocks on the work table.

It may be awhile before I can get back to this...

Hay Season has begun here in Western Oregon:

Mowing.....Raking.....Baling

This hay is our winter feed supply for the cattle...

I won't hear the sweet hum of my sewing machine...

I will be behind the wheel of this little beauty...

Happy Summer!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn