Caledonia Calling: Green Scrappy Lattice Quilt Top

 

 Caledonia : Green Scrappy Lattice Quilt Top

I started this quilt back in February / March, with thoughts of Scotland in my mind.  Ahhhh! 

 

 

Green Scrappy Lattice Quilt blocks laid out on the design wall.    This is not quite the finished layout, but getting closer!

It may still change before settling on a final layout, but we're getting there ...  From this smaller picture, I can see that too many of the plaids are lined up on the diagonal.  I'll have to mix those in a little better now, too.  

 

How the light and dark green blocks came together. 

A simple solution for the corner blocks.

 

Donna Jordan has a tutorial for how to make this quilt with scraps [See video linked below ...].    

I used a couple of green jelly rolls from Nana's Creations on Etsy, because I liked the combination of greens and textures she put together.   

 

Donna Jordan recommends using printer paper as a paper piecing template, cut to an 8-1/2 inch square.

I made strip sets out of the jelly roll strips (6 strips), and then subcut them into 6 inch blocks laid diagonally on the paper.  Then you can fill in the corners with whatever you like that contrasts.    

 

The next step is to iron the blocks flat, and then trip off anything that goes beyond the paper. 

 

I have lots of those triangles trimmed from the corners -- so I worked them into a border ...  flying geese and pin wheels.

Then I had to tear off all the backing paper.  That was easier than I thought it would be because the stitch length was shorter than usual and did a nice job of perforating the paper.  This was suitable work for one of my Quilt Ladies groups where you have to bring handwork while you chat with the Ladies. 

  

Once the blocks were all ready to go, they went up on the design wall to audition placement for the final layout.  This was the initial trial run ...  I was not so impressed with it in this first go round with the bright greens on one end and the dark greens on the other.  They needed to be better integrated ...

  My young artist friend Aidin came to visit and he gave me a helpful design consult.

 

 

 

Detail shot of the pin wheel border, made from all those cut-off corner triangles.  I didn't have enough to go the whole border, but I think the asymmetry works here. 

Detail shot of the flying geese border blocks, made from cut-off triangles.  I just couldn't bear to throw those away!
 

I am very happy with the way this quilt turned out. ;-) 

 

 Donna Jordan's Easy Tutorial for Scrappy Lattice Quilt.

 Dougie MacLean singing Caledonia.