When it comes to precision patchworking, I absolutely have to be in the right mood to make myself do it. On top of that, assembly-line piecing feels like drudgery. So once I got this quilt top all-but-done (just needing 32 more 2.5″ QSTs), all the fun seemed gone. It took a month to finish up.
The Oakshott fabrics are still a joy to work with. I just re-stocked with the motherlode ColourBox and I am bursting with ideas for how to use them all at once.
Before that, however, I hope to finish this current quilt and get a few more works-in-progress completed.
And I might just want to stare and wonder how they make so many happy happy colors. ALL the 83 colors of Oakshott shot cotton are in this; some appear only in small bits and others are repeated here and there.
It is hard to get a full-sized shot that shows the glorious colors off. Maybe that’s okay?
The diagonals are SO GOOD!
What is it that occurs at the tail end of a project, like lead in the veins? Happens all the time to me.Even if I love it. Even if its close. Especially if its close. There’s always that point of oh god will this ever end. Just can’t flush it….
The colors here ring like a bell. Thank you.
Wow, you’ve out done yourself! This is gorgeous & happy-making.
A fabulous riot of color! Love the design and every aspect of this quilt top. Job well done!!
I agree…the diagonals really do it for me on this piece. Great!
This is dizzying! In the best way!! I love your patchwork (and your other work, too) and how colorful this project is!
WHOA! That is glorious. Fantastic job, C!
that is amazing!! i love all that color!
My god, that is beautiful! Those diagonals pull the whole thing together into one spectacular cohesion of color!!!
Wow! That is just gorgeous! Love it
So beautiful and so very cheery – just what I needed right now – Thank you.
whoa! This is incredibly fabulous! (again)
Love it! such happy colours…great to wake up to ;)
It’s glorious! Absolutely glorious! You are my quilting hero, btw. Your website makes me want to learn to quilt. :)
I think it’s ok if some things can only be appreciated in person, but that means you’ll have to enter it in a show so it travels and we can all appreciate it in person!
so so pretty! i love all the colors.
I absof*ckinglutely adore it!!!!
so pretty! love the QSTs!
Oh yeah, WOW!! That is just so fantastic and happy. Love.
glorious! really worth all that drudgery
Another stunner!
I think you got a fabulous picture of the quilt top! All that color is GORGEOUS!!!
Ah wow, love it! The colours are fabulous and I LOVE that pattern
wow c. this is beautiful! love it!
Gorgeous!
Your drudgery is our eye candy! Stunning work!
This is well worth the effort. Fantastic!
Oh my….
OMG this is amazing!!! You may think it’s “precision” and boring, but this AR Accountant is BOWLED OVER by it’s precision. Just WOW!
beeYOOOOOtiful! I love the diagonals — all the little bow ties! and as you say, the colors are indeed glorious.
That quilt top is beautiful, and very you – all bright, poppy colours and a lot of scrappy patchwork. You should absolutely be proud of it.
You are a color genius. That is seriously beautiful!
wow! all the colors and the layout brought such a huge smile to my face. what a great quilt, c.
Wow! I like how the diagonal rows of HSTs add just a teensy bit of order to the riot of color and rectangles.
Amazing. I love it. It made me smile.
absolutely gorgeous- your colorwork is inspiring!
if I were your neighbour I’d be watching for you to throw one of those beautiful quilts over the fence… :~}
donna
Wow wow wow. I would have a blast hand quilting that top. Nice work.
Your work often leaves me speechless and this is no exception. You are an artist, pure and simple. Gorgeous work.
You need to add me to your gift list! This quilt makes me so happy!
This is one of my favorites, C! I love the QSTs.
LOVE THIS! You have totally made up my mind for me. I am definitely doing my AMH Prism QAL with these. I had decided to use these & reduce the pattern by 1/2, but had been dithering thinking maybe I needed to add some other fabrics in. But now, I know that I don’t-just the Oakshott. You are a total inspiration. Thank You.
I love that quilt so much! You are uber-talented! Well done..
j
I can’t even imagine accomplishing this myself. Holy cow – it is mind boggling!
Again, your color choices and the way you put them all together just blows my mind. Wow!
absolutely gorgeous…love it…sometimes I think I should use more muted colours and want to tone down my stuff and then you always change my mind…
Seems Oak Shott cotton is all the rage right now…and for good reason it’s gorgous. I love that you used all the colors and really probably only you could make them look that great together. Beautiful!
I often have trouble at the end because I can already see and taste the finish. The creative part is realized, only the work is left.
I come to your blog ever so often when I need beauty and color and creativeness. And so often I thought – she can’t top what she just did! Nothing is going to match that!
Well, you did it again. This is incredibly beautiful – the colors, the rhythm of the pattern – perfect. Thanks for sharing this.
this is AMAZING! Gorgeous darling! Simply Gorgeous!
So much love! So much color! Seeing your finished quilt top makes me itch all the more to try the Oakshotts. I agree with you, though, that sometimes finishing is doubly difficult. I want to finish Swoon so badly, but the new! shiny! is distracting me.
I love this so much! I have never seen a quilt to make my lust after fabric this much !