Color your life........

My new Color Weel! Color me Happy!!

Scraps' power

I have been inspired by the Theory of Colors. The academic traditional color weel is revisited: small apparently insignificant scraps create a color explosion in a widening solid black space. 

This modern interpretation of J. Itten "farbkreis" features high contrast and concentric machine quilting, able to keep pieces together. Design process combines different shapes and dimension like a mosaic: the result is a soft wild surface.
Improvisation brings scraps to new life : recycling is the Modern choice!

COLORFUL BABY QUILT

This time I wanted....colors colors colors!!!!

For this baby quilt I used a "little" jelly roll (only 20 stripes) that my daughter Giulia gifted me last year. It was perfect for a baby quilt....for a sweet little girl....for my new grandniece Matilde!!!

I cut  the stripes random and then I sew the pieces one after the other , always random, in a long long stripe. Then I folded in half and sewn....folded in half and sewn....so, in short time, I had a quilt top done!

A super easy back from my stash and...the beauty was ready for the quilting.

Bubbles bubbles and....more bubbles for the machine quilting in the center and straight lines for the border!! Quick and cute work!

I can't wait to gift it to my sweet Matilde!!!

Some blocks WIP

This time full color

.....may be....

I'm back....

.... with a new finished quilt!!!

Last month I bought a Charm Pack Free Spirit Fabrics from Fat Quarter Shop: a beautiful colours' palette!
I had to work on colours, a lot of colours and not only the favourite ones.
So, I decided for a simple pattern, just as a palette: wheels or spirals gave me some problems.
For the backing I used a soft fleece in a green pattern. I'm not too satisfied of the result, especially under the white fabric. I have learned a lesson. But in those days I had to work in this way!

Before binding...

....and here it is done!

It was a speedy work and perhaps not too perfect but I needed, last week, only to sew, whatever, without problems and keep my mind at work.

I chose a name for this quilt: "Color Swatches" Quilt!

It's a name a bit "pompous" for this simple work but I wanted to give it a little bit of dignity: it's always my creature!

P.S.: In the evening, my hubby Robert asked me if this quilt can will be for him: he likes CSQ just because it is  a simple quilt, not too stylish but fresh and modern.

So........"Color Swatches" Quilt has a new destination:  Robert's armchair!