One-Patch Quilt – OccasionalPiece

Trying to keep the random effect in my quilt assembly, I laid out all my blue squares, and just sewed them together in strips of 4 squares or six squares, and laid them out on the floor (below).

Then I put them up on the pin wall, but they wouldn’t all fit. So, I started from the bottom, making sure that the randomness remained, ripping out and moving around and sewing together. For as many squares as there were (12 squares across by 17 squares down) I had minimal ripping out. The bottom rows look like rectangles, but that’s just because I overlapped them in order to keep working–I needed to see all the squares as I worked. Now to sew them all together and get it to the quilter before I go on vacation.

(Where’s Provence? I still have no idea how to quilt it, or even what color thread to quilt it in, so it’s resting.)

So what am I working on while I let Provence stew a little while on the pin wall? The above photo is our bedroom, really the only room in the house that I consider nearly fully “decorated.” Nothing else in my house looks like this, I can assure you. See where the small darker blue quilt is folded up on the bottom of the bed? This place needs its own quilt.

Luckily, I’ve been planning for this for a while, as witnessed by the array above. Many of these you’ll recognize as Amy Butler prints from two cycles ago–yep, I’m usually that far behind on things. I loved the pale grayed-down bluey-green of that line, if that is indeed some kind of description. I”ve added a piece from her Love line on the right, as well as that fabulous geranium print from Rowan Fabrics (Is that a Martha Negley? The selvage doesn’t reveal it.)

After breaking my brain on the last couple of quilts, I want this one to be all about the fabric–so I’m planning just a random assortment of 5″ or 6″ blocks. Yep. A one-patch.