This past winter I made a baby quilt of granny square blocks, from Jolene's tutorial. A wave of granny square quilts rippled through blogland. I wasn't surprised; I love everything she makes. These blocks are particularly striking when they are made, as she did, from scraps. I mentioned before that I love how the variations in value makes the blocks twinkle.
An etsy customer asked me to recreate this baby quilt (which is still available by the way!) as a twin sized quilt. So I am revisiting granny, only this time she's super-sized. I started with these sunny fabrics and some scraps from the original quilt.
I cut lots of 4.5 inch squares and ended up with a dozen blocks just over 17 inches square.
I'm waiting for more Kona white to arrive for the sashing and borders; then I need to decide on backing fabric. Hmm.
Next up, I'll be creating a super-sized Flashdance for the same customer. That should be an interesting exercise
8 comments:
Will be just lovely!
Gorgeous! I have yet to make a granny square quilt but I'm constantly drooling over all the ones I see in blogland - well done!
Granny looks great all super-sized! Lovely quilt, Alex!
This is just really beautiful!
It's beautiful and makes me want to go and finish my grannies up!
now i really want to make one!
fantastic! how fun :D
Fantastic color picks!!
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