Infinite Fun – Improv Curves Quilt

My friend Brenda over at Pink Castle Fabrics recently handed me a stack of fabric and asked me to play with it and make a bit of something that she could hang in her shop for a while.

What fabrics, you ask?
First of Infinity from Lecien–so dreamy.  These fabrics should be available in the US sometime this month or next; if you go to Pink Castle’s website, you can sign up for an email when the fabric line is stocked.

I was so excited to play with the fabric–it is such a wonderful combination of pretty and modern.  And I got doubly-pumped and super-on-board when I learned that both Pink Castle and Lecien were okay with me mixing the fabrics with other lines (I’m a mixer, through-and-through) and that they didn’t mind what kind of quilt I made.  Just show the fabrics being used.  Yes!

After giving the First of Infinity fabrics a good petting, I pulled a bunch of fabrics from my stash and scraps from my scrap pile.  The above shot is just a bit of that process, with the First of Infinity fabrics on the left-hand side and bits from my stash through the center and to the right.  The selections were pared down from here to a more limited palette, but you can see the basis of what I’m doing–using only some of the First of Infinity fabrics–the ones with black (not navy) and the ones with the cool colors and the peaches.   These are the prints from First of Infinity that I’m using in this quilt–I have a panel of each:

The stash pull is mostly in the same color range–mostly low volume prints, some grays, some citron, and some dusty pastel teals. And I’ve been sneaking in a bit of magenta and a tiny bit of orange for fun.

I’m doing these quarter-square improv blocks

These blocks are based on “Drunkard’s Path,” a traditional block, but I’m doing it my way–improv and in varied sizes and laid out all crazy-like. No pins, no swearing, no crying.

The constrained color palette with slight interruptions is working for me…

And the quilt is coming together…

Time to sew up a storm.  🙂