"Squared" - quilt finished

I don’t know why I made it.

I really don’t. I’m not particularly in love with a black/white quilt. I think it is one of those things that I think I’m supposed to like so I wanted to play with it a bit.

That being said, there is at least one thing I do like about it - and the main one is that the white I used on the sashing strips was a stark white so there was a bit of contrast with the rest of the backgrounds of the low volume fabrics I did use. (The other thing I like is that I used up some previously made 9 patch low volume blocks I didn’t know what to do with!)

That made me happy and it showed up really well in the pictures as well as in person.

Here you can see the fabrics I used - all had white or a cream background and some color on top of it. I tried to look for fabrics that had a lot of space in the design.

I talked about this one before - and in truth, it’s not really just a black and white quilt - it’s a low volume quilt using black and white as the contrast!

And it’s 106” square so a king size quilt - though maybe a small-ish one? We have a queen and we can use such a quilt on our bed though it is big.

If you wanted a queen, you could just make it a 4x4 layout and make the piano keys maybe an inch longer than the pattern calls for and it would be fine.

This one shows up the white in the sashing very well.

The sashing strips here are a bit more complicated than the sashing I usually make. They end up being 4” finished, so they are a major part of the quilt.

As usual - the quilt roll.

I am kind of pleased with how it turned out, though it did not turn out as well as I originally envisioned.

I had wanted the sashing to play a much more major role in the coloration of the quilt with some of it being decidedly darker in the middle of the blocks and some of them being darker towards the X cornerstone which would then make it look like an arrow. However, that part of the design failed completely as I didn’t execute it well! I tried, but I made mine so subtle, you miss it.

You can see on the quilt roll above that the sashing block above in the middle has a darker piece right in the middle and towards the cornerstones on either end, they get lighter. Then the hourglass block had the white that direction. if you look at the black part of the hourglass block and look at the sashing that connects with it you will notice more dark in those little pieces and lighter in the middle. But like I said, it’s too subtle. Way too subtle. I should have done a much better job at choosing my fabrics for that part of the quilt.

I guess you can say I’m conflicted about the quilt.

Seriously.

I wrote about the top here. This post also points out that I already had the 9 patch low volume centers that I used in this design. I guess that is why I made it.

Sigh.

I wish all the quilts i made were a smashing success and at least an 8/10 in my own mind! Alas - it’s like dinner - sometimes it’s just “dinner” - not really great - but it’s food which nourishes our bodies. Now this quilt - oh it’s not a 2 or 3/10 in my mind, but not up there with the top ones - at least not to me. Maybe if I had succeeded in my sashing coloration, it would have been. Shrug. It’s done now!

This is number 75 in my 2” strips and squares series! Amazing! However, I did start this project back in 2015 and will continue it as I can and have time. Obviously every single block in all of these quilts isn’t only 2” - the idea is that 2” strips have to play a big role in the quilt top. That whole series is here if you want to see it all in one place.

Anyway…the pattern is here!

Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store!

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