Geometrics 7 - Purple and Black quilt

This one turned out super cool to me! I was finding myself designing several “on point” quilts and I didn’t really want to do that for all of them, so I forced myself to come up with something with a horizontal layout.

This quilt ends up being 51”x 61” - a very nice lap size quilt and quick to put together!

I had some of this purple that isn’t too dark left over from 60+ meters I had purchased previously (this is the end of it).

I actually probably prefer a more saturated purple look - a really nice dark, bold purple, but after making the two lighter blues and the pink ones, I wanted to try this color with these fabrics as well. I do have a piece or two of very light lavender, but it is so light it is hard to tell it is lavender. I thought it wasn’t the right thing for what I wanted.

This photo makes the purple look a bit more blue than it really is. I think the 2 photos above are truer to the color. It’s interesting because I took all three of these photos at the same time with the same camera.

I’m not sure what else you need to know for this. I did take my 4.5” squares and put a 1".5” (cut) frame around them and then put some side setting pieces of black around them and trimmed them down to 9.5”. I then made the more purple blocks to fit the on point block.

I have only 4 sizes of these strips - 1.5”, 2”, 2.5” and 4.5”. That’s all. I have to work with what I have. I can cut them down but can’t make them bigger. The only way to make a bigger block is to add more complexity to it. That’s what I did by adding that tiny little 1” piece of geometrics in the middle of that more purple block. You see, I needed a 9” block, not 8”. At first I had a simple 4 patch in that spot, but that only made an 8” block, but I needed 9”- so I asked myself how to do that. There are various ways, but that is the solution I settled on.

I think with these geometrics, at least for my own personal sense of what I like, that I need to bathe them with plenty of solids to tone them down and make the quilt pleasant to look at.

I have been afraid of making everything “too busy” as the pieces themselves can be almost wild! I am not at all afraid of wild - but I don’t like clashing things. Maybe if I put them all side by side it would be okay, but I’m afraid I wouldn’t be happy with it.

Anyway…

Here’s the layout:

Each individual square you see is a cut 4.5” piece (the small pieces). The bigger blocks are cut or trimmed down to 9.5”. The sashing and cornerstone blocks finish at 1” wide - cut 1.5”.

This pack by Andover includes 10 different half yard pieces. $30.

And there you go! Simple, but I like it! I hope you do too! I will probably write up this pattern before showing the finished quilt as it does have a bit more complexity to it than some of the other ones!

My sis does have a geometrics pack that she has made up - if you are interested in something like this but don’t have such fabrics! They can be a lot of fun!

It’s here.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

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

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