In the last couple of years I have made a number of "traditional" based colored quilts. They had similarities in the fabric but of course never shared fabrics. I now have a small mountain of fabrics in this genre and need to start culling the herd.
Add to that, I have been digging out the fabric shelves downstairs and find that a lot of batiks have been coming home from the store with me. It pains me to see these beautiful fabrics hiding in my storage boxes in the basement. Not all of them are in quantities that will be a focus fabric in my next grand endeavor but they certainly are nice laid out together on the sorting table.
Last year I started taking a bite out of the "traditionals" with Glory Bound from Bonnie Blue Quilts. I made up a stack of half square triangles but only got a couple of blocks done. After working at the sorting table I am more committed to moving out these leftover fabric chunks and scraps - both "traditionals" and batiks.
So here is what the first 4 blocks look like. It is a simple pattern with a great secondary design. Now that I have Sylvia's off the wall I can put this up and figure out what other colors need to be added for variety and balance. This block uses 36 darks and 28 lights. I would like to make up more half square triangles in a greater variety of colors (adding browns, dark golds, more blues....) because the same fabrics keep show up in each block so quickly. It is not like I don't have the variety so I might as well use it.
Then I think I will do one in batiks with a focus on jewel tones. More to come.
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