Octopus Quilt
October 2006
Here's a picture of my current project. I wanted to try something with all curved seams. If you ever hear me talking such nonsense again, please smack me. It is taking forever to sew this monster, what with 3 or 4 pins for every inch of every seam.
Here it is, all laid out on my design wall. The bottom layer is the pattern drawn on paper. I copied this (in reverse) on freezer paper and cut the freezer paper into iron-on templates (you can see the used ones pinned to the wall on the sides). Then I laid out all of the background fabrics and cut the pieces. In the photo below, I have started sewing them together (the removed chunks are areas that I had taken down for sewing).
The background is now basically done. I have to decide if the octopus itself should be magenta or a dark salmon color. What do you think?
Update!
February 2007
Here's an updated version with all of the fabrics in place, and about half sewn together. The magenta fabric I was considering wasn't quite right, it was too cool/receding/dark. But I found an almost identical one in my stash that has an orange undertone. Its amazing how that touch of orange makes it so much more lively and really makes the color pop against the blues.
