What I’m working on: the Kingfisher quilt

There are times when something (that something in this case being a social media event) gets you interested, but you only join up when are pulled in by sheer gravitas as you start to see the physical representations of that event.

That made no sense to you?

Okay, but if I say that a quilt-along/stitch-along social media event pulled me in when I started seeing the quilts people were creating?

Does it make more sense now?

Anyway, searching for #kingfisherstitchalong on Instagram will show you lots of pretty. And even though I had already decided NOT to take part in it, back before the summer started and the event was announced and kicked off, well...I obviously changed my mind.

And instead cut out the background pieces for the quilt one day before the event was to officially end.

I thought, while I was feeling really ”off” in my head (because my therapy had only just begun), that ”I could try to just make the quilt out of things in my stash” and ”I think I can scavenge together enough neutrals for all those background diamonds”.

As I started cutting up white/beige/light brown variants of neutral fabric scraps, I started thinking about what would work together with them. Because the quilt pattern called for three borders. So the thoughts ”Do I have a great amount of some fabric I could use for this?” and ”It can even be an ugly donation fabric”.

I found a donated orange curtain fabric (that came from Annikki), and cut out the triangles that will surround the background diamonds from it. Then, a second hand store red fabric that could become skinny Border 1. Same orange curtain fabric again for Border 2, and ... I got stuck about colors to look through for Border 3.

So I cut out neutral fabric leftovers/scraps from my folder to use for the EPP flowers/rosettes, and then I went through my pinks, oranges and reds for fabrics that would match the backgrounds.

At the Pitsiviikko event (a few days afterwards) I found a FQ of fabric at a thrift/garden sale event, and it was more than enough for the EPP triangles that will come on border 2. Hooray!

Then, lots of days later - pretty much like out of the blue - I suddenly remembered I had this brown dotted fabric I had bought second hand. What a triumph! Border 3 was chosen.

At the same time, I noticed this fabric in my stash that had all the matching colors for the front: brown, beige, and pink (and could work well with orange). So, that would become my backing. And if I needed to, I could piece it together with some oranges to become large enough.

Only thing left were whatever I wanted to make the EPP rosettes out of.

And that’s where I’m at now. I have 10 rosettes done, even if the photo above only has 5, and I need 46. And I might end up with putting some of those I’ve already done on the quilt back. 

Choosing and trying my damnedest to fussy cut fabric hexagons. With solids, it would be so easy. But I didn’t want to do ”easy”.

(Queue putting big girl pants on and cut fabric like you mean it...)

Have a nice day everybody! :)

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