#Just get it done quilts full#

So this post I am giving you half the Nick pinkies photos to end… as well as the a full body shot. I could have made it easier on myself and just gridded the layout so there were no difficult seams but in the end I loved the layout I had put up… it does not feel regular or predictable. I grouped blocks together where I could and only had a few partial seams to deal with. It was slightly tedious to sew together…. It sat on my design wall for a bit before I was happy with it. but being a perfectionist I did um and ah about it a lot. Now laying out this quilt was not to hard because there was a logic to the size blocks I chose – using a 3 inch grid…. I know with the blocks I made I had a blast finding different novelty prints to cut up. and tons and tons of scraps.Įach body of the bear paw is made up of four squares which allows for maximum fussy cutting potential and scrap usage. This quilt uses blocks that are 3, 6, 9 and 12 inches big… a whole rainbow of colors…. Actually in May 2019 I posted about making two blocks at a time in various sizes… the result of the tutuorial and my Bee mates work is this stunning quilt… What this means is I made enough bear paw blocks to finish up 8 quilts… you are going to see a lot of bear paws over the coming months.īut before I started my over zealous production of bear paws for class, I set the block as my Do Good Stitches block. We used a fabulous book by Rachel Hauser of Stitched in Color called a Quilters Field Guide to Color as a resource… and like Rachel does in the book we workshopped color using Bear Paw blocks. I taught a color class for Modern Domestic, a local quilt store, which was all about color in quilting. I am a pink girl through and through but I loved the challenge of making something not too girly.Ģ020 was definitely the year of Bear Paw blocks for me. I made it after the hospital said they needed a few more quilts for older teenage boys. This quilt is also already out in the wild.

and I think those little splashes are the most successful pops of color.īecause of the randomness of the orange inserts your eye moves around the quilt more… hunting out those little splashes of contrast. some of the orange is a full strip and other bits of orange are only inserted into the navy strip…. The trick is to only put a few pieces of the highlight color in each of the log cabin blocks…. which just enhances the impact of the color splashes. The orange is the perfect contrasting color to the blue… these two colors are actually opposite each other on the color wheel….

It just so happens that I had a small scrap pile of orange bits that were left over from another quilt and the navy and orange were the perfect combination. So I started with the navy scraps and as I begin putting the log cabin blocks together the navy seemed boring… it needed a little something to give it a lift. So this wonky log cabin was a fun project that started after I had collected a hug bag of navy scraps….

Just get it done quilts