100 good pinks

Just to help you visualize...



That's 8 x 12, or 96 squares in the body of the quilt, plus 4 squares in the corners to make 100. We could also do 10 x 10 with no corner blocks. (If you intend this to be used on a small bed, the rectangular shape is more practical; if it is more of a lap/snuggle quilt, anything goes!)

More on colour options

The idea of 100 different pinks is actually quite appealing to me, the more I think about it.

I'm interested to know from the people who read this blog whether you would find that limiting. If someone said "send me a square of fabric in some shade of pink" is that significantly harder than just "send me a square of fabric."

Or do you think it's better to just let the quilt evolve organically and just be what it is?

Colour options

For the Panda's quilt, do you think we should work to a colour scheme? The reason I ask is that I had always assumed we would just get whatever people wanted to send, but after watching you put those quilt kits together I realise that I prefer the quilts with certain colour schemes - the pink & green, and the Neopolitan come particularly to mind.

But does that just make it too hard?

Some progress

I ended up having second thoughts about that last one, so reverted back to a previous version of the kit. That troublesome yellow!



Once finished with the kits, I made us a version of one of the kit quilts, as it looked so good in my living room. We have a sage colored couch, so I chose a green border and green ties. The couch is very pleased with its new friend.

And then there were 10

The focus fabric for this one was a real challenge, a yellow with a greyish green cast to it.

I put together a quilt that had a lot of promise - to the extent that DH said I should make a copy of it myself, "but without the doggie fabric." And that was the crux of the problem: it looked okay, but it looked better without the fabric I was supposed to be highlighting!

I went back to the drawing board, pulled out the blue, and put in the green that the yellow "wanted". I'd been resisting it because I'd already made a kit that had these sorts of colors in it. But that was a silly mental block.

So, here is #10, with its green and with the only pale colors in the corner that didn't make the dog fabric look wretched and wan. (Note to fabric designers: just don't use that yellow. Please.)