Friday, September 15, 2017

Kaleidoscope flimsy


Before I hopped on an airplane to California, I was able to get all my kaleidoscope blocks pieced together. I do love how all those triangles somehow magically become interlocking circles!

During the flimsy piecing, I found I was constantly having to choose between flat seams and pointy points. I mostly chose flat seams and think that was the right way to go. Even with some of the points being wonky and cut off, the kaleidoscope effect works just fine. If you're close enough to admire the points, the circles disappear anyway. And there are some fine points in there, too, if you know just where to look, ha!

I tried to get a bit of a colorwash effect, although the values of the fabrics are pretty similar. So it's really just a pink to blue/warm to cool wash. That counts, right? Is temperaturewash a thing? This one will need some borders to fatten it up a bit. Maybe a soft, solid-reading baby blue. I'm looking forward to working more on this one when I return to the boat in a week or so.


In other news, perhaps you remember this block called "Grandad's Shirts" for one of Kat's block drives. The gorgeous, finished Covered in Love quilts are now posted on Kat's site. If you want to peek at them, check out Kat's latest post.

12 comments:

  1. Your color wash looks fantastic! Thanks for the shout-out :-) safe travels

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  2. Beautiful job, Louise! I've often wondered about piecing a kaleidoscope...on a scale of 1 to 10 how difficult would you consider it to piece?

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  3. Ooo! Love that, Louise. Very striking! How long did it take you to make it and how big is it? Or is it hard to tell if you kind of made blocks for it here and there? :)

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  4. Very, VERY nice! Heading over to Kat's, now!

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  5. the quilt looks lovely, especially the circle effect. You are right, it does look like a watercolor.

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  6. Love that Kaleidescope. Thanks for reminding me about CWL.

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  7. I love your kaliedoscope quilt - I have always been hesitant to try one because of having colours looking good.... yours is stunning..
    Hugz

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  8. Oh nice kaleidoscope - a favourite pattern of mine.

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  9. Love the kaleidoscope quilt and the quilts on Kat's blog look wonderful - nice and masculine.

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  10. Your kaleidoscope is gorgeous! I think you did right by choosing flatter seams over pointy points-you'll be happier when you go to quilt it.

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  11. Oh it looks wonderful, I love the way you graduated the colour, it's perfect.

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