Today I am visiting a old old project that I have never properly shared before. Back in 2018 I took part in a 100 Blocks in 100 Days Challenge with Angie at Gnome Angel using the Tula Pink City Sampler. I completed all the blocks and I turned it into my Orange and Green 100 Blocks Quilt.
It was a real fun project to work on, at a time in my life my kids were very diddy, it was something I could work on to hone my patchwork skills. I learnt a lot. One of my favourite things I learnt was my love of the 6″ block. It’s actually 6.5″. That size fits in well with a tiny project.
Orange and Green 100 Blocks
I decided to split my blocks into 50’s to make 2 different quits for my kids. Orange and Green. I didn’t want another massive quilt for me. I wanted to put all the hard work into something that I could share with my little people. So here are the 2:
For My son. He has the green one. His got made up first, he’s the oldest after all. For both quilts I used a staggered patchwork. I don’t normally work with such plain colour borders. It was a big deal for me to buy a lot of fabric in one colour and roll with it.
He adores it. I had pulled out all the “boy” colour blocks to add into his quilt and even with some hints of purple and pink I think it worked out really well. He lives under it nowadays.
Both are backed with fleece rather than cotton. I haven’t gone for quilting them, they are quite simply bagged and tagged! Don’t get me wrong, I love a quilt but sometimes in the interest of getting a patchwork top finished I just like this simple approach of sewing, turning and it being finished.
The Girls Quilt is in Orange. She has all the pink and “girl” colour blocks. 2 very different quilts but also very similar. I had took a good 10 month break from making the Boy version to the Girl version. I think that this impacted my littles love of her quilt. She uses it but doesn’t have the same amount of love for it as the boy!
It’s fantastic to have these finished and out for show on the blog. I am very glad that I made the time to start making this back in 2018. At a time when my kids would’ve needed myself so much, I prioritised my creative time.
Make Time is a space for likeminded creative people to fill and uplift each other in their creative pursuits. Sharing the highs and lows of the things we create as well as coming with ideas to help each other in their daily creative habits.
See you there,
Karen
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