Process Post

I am exhausted today. I worked at the quilt store today, and in addition to not being used to being on my feet for that long it was also our Christmas in July. Basically yesterday and today we unveiled all our new Christmas fabric and had some demos and such. It was busy! What makes it even more surprising is that it was warm today (mid to upper twenties) and we haven't had great weather. In any event my feet and back are sore! So this evening I thought I'd talk a bit about the quilt I'm making for my husband. I'm going to refer to some of the prompts from the process pledge.

• Does the color palette come from somewhere specific?
• I'm using greens and greys for this quilt. Those are the colours we picked for our house when we got married. They're nice colours and look good together even though they're not that common.
• Is this quilt intended for a specific person?  How did that inform your choices?
• This is for my husband, so I've stayed away from anything that would be too girly. Basically no pinks, and no flowery type stuff. I also tried to pick a masculine pattern.
• Are you following a pattern, emulating a block you saw somewhere, using a liberated process, or totally winging it?
• I am following a pattern. I think it'll be a long, long time before I ever try to design my own stuff. If ever. 

All cut (finally, there was a lot of cutting) and ready to go.
• What are you hating about this quilt at this stage?  What do you love?
• The design I'm followiing is Urban Cabin (see previous post or the one before that for a link). Its a pretty straight forward design which makes it easy for me to follow. It would be really easy to mess it up though. The blocks are mirror images of each other so you really need to be careful where you sew each new strip.  

Fabric all laid out so I can see all the patterns as I'm choosing combinations. (I'm also playing with the camera settings as I learn about that too!)

• Did you push yourself to try something new? 
• Not yet. I might bet brave with the quilting, but I'm still learning so I'm not quite ready to try anything too new. 
• In working on the quilt, are you getting ideas about what you might want to try next?  What?  Did you sketch it?
• No specific ideas, but I do know I want to try some new block techiniques for the next quilt I make. Or even learn to do applique. At the quilt store where I work part time I can take classes for free (plus fabric) and there's a couple that are geared toward an intermediate beginner like me. 

I'll try and post some more recent photos of this quilt tomorrow, but I'm really happy with how it's coming along. Being that I'm off school right now it's also coming together relatively fast.