Caroline Hadley is an Australian quilter who publishes a weekly feature online in which she shares a digital mockup of a proposed modern quilt design. Her designs are always fun and intriguing, and a design she shared back in January really caught my attention. That was her Sunday Sketch #498, seen here on Instagram or here on her blog.
With Caroline's permission, I decided to make a quilt based on her drawing. I drafted my own templates for the curved shapes, and cut them from acrylic using our library's laser cutter.
I created my own digital mockup to try out different color combinations based on available fabric lines. I settled on Windham's Artisan Cotton, using Raspberry/Light Pink, Light Green/Chartreuse, Dark Navy/Blue, and Poison/Green. Some other options I considered:
The Artisan Cottons are crossweaves which I really enjoy.
I didn't realize until I was leaving the quilt shop with the background fabric and saw it in the sun that the Poison/Green is actually an orange/green crossweave. I might have chosen something different if I had known that, but I think it works ok. It does show up differently depending on the light and the viewing angle; and I didn't attempt to keep all the fabrics oriented in the same way so the color can show differently from piece to piece.
The other fabrics I used do not have as much contrast between the two yarns, so their orientation is not obvious.
I filled most of the border with a 0.5" diagonal grid.
I finished the quilt with a facing. The backing is a Heather Givans fabric; it's a paler yellow but it also has bits of magenta and blue.
I appreciate Caroline's allowing me to "borrow" her design. Be sure to check out some of the other designs in her series.
