Ryan’s quilt

I have been working at a furious pace on this quilt. I really feel I need to get this to Ryan as soon as possible. Life is hard for him now and a warm loving quilt can really brighten the day.My theme is 12″ and 6″ paper pieced stars. Every star will have red, his wife says that is his favorite color. I’m using mostly solids but a few prints just for the pop. The background is different grey.Some people have a design wall. An area covered with flannel where they can stick up the squares and figure out the design. I have a design floor, I don’t have the wall space. Also,  quilts are usually on a bed, or a sofa, so viewing the layout on the floor makes sense to me.

I think the Gee’s Bend quilters at Quiltcon had an effect on me. Yes, I go for order, for well pieced blocks. I’m not much for improvisation.  You can see as I started adding the sashing between the blocks – it is pretty symmetrical.Well that didn’t last long did it?  I’m still trying to spread the different values of grey evenly, but no more symmetry. Yes, it’s all rectangular, but the size of the sashing is simply to fill in blank spaces. Which is why when I got to the border, I had to piece different colors together and I just let the grey fall where it would.  Not upset at all, it is very liberating to not follow a grid.I have tried a new basting method, but that is for another post.

linked at WIP Wednesday