Good Morning and welcome to my stop on the Riley
Blake Designs Quilt-It
Modern Blog Tour featuring Riley Blake Confetti Colors and Crayola
Colors.
As you probably already know, I absolutely love, love, LOVE working with bright
and bold colours. They make me happy and have the power to change boring, into WOW!
Choosing the colours which I wanted to work with
was hard! There are so many beautiful shades. I finally decided on a warm &
cool palette. I love how these yellow/orange/reds balance and work with the mint/teal/turquoise
colours.
I created an 18" pillow for my lounge. It's
made with (4) 9" blocks of a basic star flower block. Two blocks in each
colour-way, sewn on opposite corners. I added a layer of batting to the back
and quilted it with straight lines, 1/4" outside of each seam. I'm
normally a FMQer, so these straight lines were a fun change.
I really loved this pillow but then, on a whim,
decided to use up the scraps (from the strips I'd cut for the first one) to create a second
pillow. This one is a little smaller measuring 14" - but what it lacks in
size, it makes up for in pizzazz.
To make this second pillow, I cut the color
strips into 2 uneven pieces and then sewed these to either side of a white
strip. I didn't use any real measurements for this pillow, other than squaring
up the pillow top at 14.5". I quilted it with some crazy zig-zags and
finished it with some black and white binding.
I hope you've enjoyed my stop on the Quilt-In
Modern Blog Tour and I hope it has inspired you to create something bright,
bold and happy for your space.
Visit these creative people and see what
magic they've conjured with their Riley Blake Confetti Colors and Crayola
Colors and don't forget to follow along on Instagram by checking out the
27 June 2016 - A Bright Corner & Salty Oat
28 June 2016 - Trillium Design
& Allison Sews
29 June 2016 - A Quilter's Table
& Bonjour
Quilts
30 June 2016 - Euphoria Jessica
& Material Girl
Quilts
1 July 2016 - Samelia's Mum (You
Are Here) & Sassafrass Lane
5 July 2016 - Quilt Matters
& During Quiet Time
6 July 2016 - Sometimes Crafter
& Modern Handcraft
7 July 2016 - Orchid Owl Quilts
& Piece and Quilt
8 July 2016 - Sew Katie Did & Tumbling Blocks
& Leigh Laurel
Studios
Your cushions are beautiful! You chose the perfect palette to complement tour sofa! And I love the striped binding too!
ReplyDeleteThank you! I must admit, I'm a bit of a sucker for a black and white stripey binding :)
DeleteThese cushions are very pretty. You picked the right colors and I love the quilting! Fabulous job!
ReplyDeleteThank you so very much xx
DeleteGorgeous work, Anorina, you make these colours sing! I really love your zigzag quilting, not only looks good but I find the more densely I quilt a cushion the better chance it has of surviving the 'love' of my children :)
ReplyDeleteThese are amazing! Love the one with the binding. I've been teaching myself to make pillows lately. How do you put binding on?
ReplyDeletewow Anorina i love your sense of colour those cushions are amazing,i also love your style of decorating,well done ....
ReplyDeleteGorgeous pillows!!! Like the bold use of color and shape!
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