Probably two years ago I found some fabric with bicycles and unicycles on it by Michael Miller. I thought it might be nice for a birthday shirt for my unicycle riding daughter. She was not interested, but I knew with now three unicyclists in the house I would use it someday.
Almost a year ago I had seen this hoop-like fabric and used some for a tablecloth at a hoop demo. As the weather gets colder and we spend more time cuddling under blankets, I naturally thought about a quilt.
Googling quilt images is one thing I do from time to time. I get some neat ideas from what others are doing. Many "modern quilts" are making use of negative space.
Using the cycling fabric along with the hooping fabric seemed to be the perfect fabrics to try out some new quilting.
As I was seeking out coordinating fabrics, I remembered how unique the cycling fabric is. The only shade that finally seemed to match was in the fat quarter section. The hoop fabric is predominately pink, which isn't my favorite, but I decided I could bring out the orange and it would work. Both fabrics have white, so that was an easy choice. I didn't want the quilt to have too much white though and sought out a green. The green represents the outdoors for me and how my family enjoys being outdoors.
At first I wasn't sure how all the fabrics might go together. Then I decided to just keep each print separate and use the white to tie everything together.
This is another quilt as I go project which I have come to enjoy. I started fussy cutting the cycling fabric. I wanted to make sure I got at least a couple unicycles. Then I cut strips of the aqua and the white in varying widths. Each block went together quickly and I really liked the effect.
The hoop fabric came next. I found patterns within the fabric to cut around. And once again cut varying strips to border each square and rectangle.
After working on the blocks some of yesterday and today, I figured I had enough to lay them out. Laying the blocks on top of the green gave me a better idea of how it will look. I think I could even make some more blocks for a bigger quilt.
It will be interesting figuring out the in between measurements and deciding on final placements.
One thing I'd like to try soon is quilting on a long arm sewing machine. There is one shop in the area where one can rent time on the machine. Eventually I want to make a queen sized quilt for my bed and use the long arm machine for that. Working on something smaller first would be good practice.
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