Kaffe Mystery Quilt

[KathleenAT50]

wawasteele--I love your idea of large stars. That will showcase both the squares and the Kaffe fabric.

[jtutton]

Wawasteele, that is such a cool idea.

[jtutton]

Jolly pea, I like that layout, too.

[VreniBC]

I am just starting to choose colors and Kaffe fabrics to begin this project. I've got a huge amount of his fabrics, and I have to say that I love the variety that I'm seeing. I really appreciate the use of more than the Brassica fabric lines, and those of you who have chosen not to use Kaffe have some stellar choices as well! I absolutely LOVE the Jane Sassamon quilt. You are all doing amazing work!

Kenny - I think that the morning glory prints you've used actually are Kaffe! I have that Orange and fuschia combination in my stash, LOTS of it because I am going to use it on the By Annie ruler caddy.

[littlestitches]

Looks like the Dutchmans puzzle block is flying the wrong direction on one of the sections.

[DebbiG]

Jillypea, Have you added the Kaffe corners to each on-point block? What size are those triangles, please? I like the stripe look. Thanks.

[DebbiG]

Love everyone's setting ideas and all the colorful precise blocks! I feel mine needs some place for eyes to rest so am thinking about color blocking some varied sashing around a combo of 2 pieced and 2 background fabric (not Kaffe) blocks. First attempt at the idea...

[PaolaRB]

Here are my two blocks, Star of Hope and Dutchman's Puzzle, with the Brassica that will surround each block and which were used for the color inspiration

[DianeRoss]

My quilt told me it was time to finish. I met my challenge - to work with a color I don't normally care for (purple) and feature it in a project. It's a nice size for a lap quilt. Now I just need to piece a backing, and get it off to the long-armer. Overall, I'm quite pleased with how it turned out, and more likely to use purple in future projects.

[mrsreyes]

Finally started putting my queen sized quilt together. Should I leave the black squares floating, or trim so they come to the edges of the block?

[djane]

mrsreyes and DianeRoss...Your quilts looks spectacular. mrsreyes...I like when the black blocks float but either way would look wonderful.

[VreniBC]

Diane Ross - what a great quilt! I think you succeeded spectacularly! I can't make myself go to a pink and blue block, and I don't think there's a force on earth that could make me do that!

[gradyk]

So beautiful, Diane.

[DianeRoss]

mrsreyes - I would bring the black squares together - a dynamic secondary pattern. But a pain to piece. And they look great floating. So do what you like best?

Finally started putting my queen sized quilt together. Should I leave the black squares floating, or trim so they come to the edges of the block?

[DianeRoss]

I finished the pinwheel variation and the star of hope this evening. I'm still behind but when I finished the star of hope, I held it up to admire the finished block. Boy, was I surprised hmy: I attached the bottom row upside-down!
I fixed it and here it is.