Mosaic Tuesday - Red, Chartreuse, Peach and Wood {Quiltspiration 365}

Thanks to some of the lovely ladies over at Late Night Quilters I'm happy to introduce a new series of weekly posts I'm calling Mosaic Tuesdays (for lack of a better name at this point).  It's part of an effort we're calling quiltspiration365‬, intended to fulfill your every need when it comes to quilty inspiration 365 days a year.  You can find more posts about the series on Facebook and instagram using  #quiltspiration365 as well as links to the other posts this week below.  I'll be sharing color mosaics that inspire me, and hopefully you as well.  Feel free to use these to inspire your projects I just ask that you link back to the original color pallet post to give credit.  So without further adu...

Deep red plays with warm dark brown and is off set by peaches and light natural.  Chartreuse makes it pop.

With fall in full swing, winter is just around the corner and so is Christmas.  This mosaic could go either way, Autumn or Christmas.  Just more proof that Red and Green can be more versatile than traditional holiday colors.

Left to Right, Top to Bottom: 1. favorite red quilts, 2. Twiggy in Brown from Honeycrisp, 3. Around the Color Wheel Solid Red, 4. Dottie - Caviar, 5. Squared Elements in Lime, 6. Branches in Tangerine, 7. Mail Day, 8. Doe - Lined Dots in Carrot, 9. so far this week…, 10. Felted Pebbles , 11. watercolor herringbone in pinks, 12. Trilobite {Fall 2014}, 13. Bark and Branch Leaf in Gray, 14. Raw Color, 15. Amalie Loves Denmark, 16. Moda Storybook #2

Be sure to search for #quiltspiration365 for even more inspiration!

Starting on Round 2 {Round Trip Quilts}

Heather's Round Trip Quilt package arrived on my door step on October 18th, after Liz worked her magic on the "Wishes for my Daughter" themed quilt.  Heather's note book is extremely detailed, outlining what she sees this quilt becoming and what sort of things she would like to see included.  Heather is making this quilt for her young daughter to use in her first 'big girl' bed and wants it to be full of things that she loves as well as things that Mom and Dad love too.

At first I thought I'd go with some cute paper pieced flowers and trees that I found online and add a nice big garden and forest to the quilt since her daughter loves flowers and being outdoors.  But I felt like the scale of these blocks would be too much this early in the stage.  I might still throw some in though.....we'll see.

Then I was leaning towards butterflies.  But I still wasn't feeling it.

Bee Vintage Butterfly Block

Garden Party - free PDF pattern

Butterfly simple 5' Paper Pieced Pattern

Heather also mentioned how much she likes paper piecing and, being adventurous, I though I might try something really out side of my comfort zone with these two cute little girls.  However, I'm not sure that I'm feeling quite that adventurous.

Girl Skipping

Girl chasing Butterflies

Then I remembered a block that was demoed for us at my local quilt guild's October meeting.  I don't remember what she called the block but my first thought was "Oh! I could size that down to make easy cathedral windows blocks.... and that's just what I did.  The method is similar to a tutorial posted by Elizabeth at Don't Call Me Betsy.  If I remember I'll take some photographs to post a more detailed tutorial of the method I'm using to make my blocks.

As I said already, Heather's notebook was incredibly detailed so pulling fabrics for her quilt was a breeze.  Her color inspiration was based on the Wee Wander collection by Sarah Jane.  Girly, but not too girly.  I dug into my stash and pulled some easily coordinated Cotton + Steel and other fabrics.

Then I got to work cutting.

Cool colors and low volumes

Warm colors

As an aside, wouldn't these look great as simple color coordinated four patch blocks? I'm thinking a full quilt in this palette is in my future.

Here's what the block will look like when it's all together.  Cool colors and low volume four-patch blocks with warm color cathedral windows.  I still need to top-stitch the curves, I'm leaning towards a variegated purple thread that I purchased for my triangle quilt awhile ago or simple invisible thread to avoid taking away from the design.  Now the question is, should I top-stitch before or after I piece the blocks together?  I'm leaning towards before.

Happy Quilting!

I'm linking up with Stitch by Stich for anything goes mondays.

Round #1 Recap {Round Trip Quilts}

Round one of Round Trip Quilts is officially complete.  I thought it would be fun to do a summary post of all of the additions made this round to show you how things are progressing.

Liz at Green Cheese Quilting

Liz had Heather's "Letter's to my Daughter" quilt first.  She played off of the sail boat adding waves, and added some adorable wonky stars with a touch of fussy cut.  You can read her full post here.

Jennifer at Never Just Jennifer

I had Liz's feathered star center first.  After bouncing through several ideas, I added color coordinated peach HST's to frame and accent her center block.  The full post can be seen here.

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Leanne started with my New Hampshire themed quilt.  Being the lone Canadian in the group she pieced these maple leaf blocks, even throwing in one red and white block for Canada.  Her post and additional pictures is here.

Mary at See Mary Quilt

Mary worked on Leanne's star-themed quilt first.  She added these little wonky stars with Victoria Findlay Wolfe-esque centers to bring in lots of colors.  How fun!  Her full post can be found here.

Chelsea Huckins at Patch the Giraffe

Chelsea started with Mary's gradient rainbow star.  She drafted and pieced some color coordinated arrows to add to the block and tied out the cornerstone blocks into her border as well.   Her full post is here.

Christina at WIPs and Tuts

Christina got Chelsea's solid and low-volume center stars first.  She worked through a few different design options and eventually added some stars and plus blocks.  Her full post is here.

Kim at Ties That Bind Quilting

Kim started with Christina's fall themed block first.  She added these adorable little apple blocks and apple cores to the start that Christina started with.  Her blog post and more pictures can be found here.

Heather at QA Creations

Heather worked Kim's modern bright quilt first and made this fun piece to add to the mix using a pattern from “Fresh Quilting” by Malka Dubrawsky.  You can find her blog post about it here. 

Round one of this round robin style bee has been so much fun and so much more challenging than I could have even imagined.  Working on someone else's quilt is the hardest thing I've ever done and has really pushed me to stretch my imagination and skills to add something really special.  Our next mailing deadline is November 24th.  Be on the lookout for posts about round two then!  Thanks for visiting.  You can find a complete summary of all of our posts on my Round Trip Quilts page in the toolbar at the top of the page!

Round Trip Quilts is on Flickr and you can follow us on Instagram using #roundtripquilts!  

The full list of members is below:

Heather at QA Creations

Leanne at Devoted Quilter

Kim at Ties That Bind Quilting

Liz at Green Cheese Quilting

Mary at See Mary Quilt

Christina at WIPs and Tuts

Jennifer at Never Just Jennifer

Chelsea Huckins at Patch the Giraffe

Mosaic Tuesday - Red, Blue, and Grey {Quiltspiration 365}

Thanks to some of the lovely ladies over at Late Night Quilters I'm happy to introduce a new series of weekly posts I'm calling Mosaic Tuesdays (for lack of a better name at this point).  It's part of an effort we're calling quiltspiration365‬, intended to fulfill your every need when it comes to quilty inspiration 365 days a year.  You can find more posts about the series on Facebook and instagram using  #quiltspiration365 as well as links to the other posts this week below.  I'll be sharing color mosaics that inspire me, and hopefully you as well.  Feel free to use these to inspire your projects I just ask that you link back to the original color pallet post to give credit.  So without further adu...


There is this one tree in the middle of the parking lot at work that I love.  I get to walk past it when I have a meeting at the big house as we sometimes say.  It's bright red.  It stands all alone on a little hill and its showy red leaves shine against only the sky.  Today, with the sky caught between grey blue storm clouds and clear blue fall sky it was particularly striking.  Today's palette is inspired by that tree.

I don't generally do primary colors.  I don't know why.  I think I just prefer the subtle variances of all of the secondary and tertiary colors.  But there is something special about red and blue together.  I think the various shades of each color help keep it from feeling too patriotic, though it does still have some of that vibe to it.

Left to Right, Top to Bottom: 1. indigo and linen quilt, 2. Red!, 3. lily quilt wall, 4. marley of the sea {do.good}, 5. red | orange, 6. Reserved Custom Order, 7. IQSCM circa 1900, 8. creux quilt, plus quilt, 9. Totem, 10. French Dot Constellation Runner , 11. Red and Blue triangles, 12. amish hourglass, 13. hand quilting geese, 14. Around the Color Wheel Solid Red, 15. Japanese blue and indigo quilt, 16. T-Hello Red!

Be sure to search for #quiltspiration365 for even more inspiration!