I sent two quilts out today, both started a way back in 2013. The first was this here baby quilt for a former lifting buddy of mine, Mags, who has since gone back to greener pastures in WI and has just last week spawned her very first infant, Anne. Hooray Mags!
The proud parents didn't find out the sex of the baby until she was born, though, so Mags gave me free rein to pick colors and do whatever. I started with some wonky stars but didn't like them, so I gave this one a shot: a version of Julie Pickles' Mod Pop. I say "version" because I didn't buy the pattern, since I already have a Drunkard's Path template that I could use for this sucker: lord knows I needed the practice on curved seams, but also it amuses me to make something for a baby called Drunkard's Path.
So this is the basic block, using my giant pile of thrifted men's shirts as the grays. The plan for the color part, since I was not tied to anything gender-specific or nursery colors, was ALL the colors: a colorwash quilt. Exciting! Turns out, though, that the best way to do a colorwash quilt is NOT to start with something that is yellow, orange and green and work out in a circle from there. Bad plan, for not the least of which reason is that it turns out I didn't have all that much green in my stash to begin with and should have husbanded its use a little more carefully. As it is, "green and pink" ended up being one of my color areas, to confusing effect. To wit: this ended up in the middle -
