Couchpeanut's Throw Quilt

My current project is a throw quilt for  my daughter (aka Couchpeanut). She wants a classic quilt made from patchwork blocks. We went through my quilt book library and ended up with a design inspired by the cover of one of my old, favorite quilt booklets:
"Calico and Beyond: The Use of Patterned Fabric in Quilts" by Roberta Horton.
I bought the book back in the 1980ies and it taught me valuable lessons on the use of patterned fabric. Lessons that I still draw on in each and everyone of of my current works.


The book is still on sale at Amazon and I can highly recommend it. There might be newer books on the subject, but this one covers all the basics. If you know of newer book, that you can recommend, I will be grateful if you post them as a comment to this post. Thanks.

I'm sooo happy that she chose a scrap quilt, I would have been bored to death if she had wanted me to make that many blocks had they all been identical. Now there is a little creative period when choosing the fabrics for each block. Not two blocks are alike and the center squares are all unique. There's a few (2 or 3) fabric I cut more than one squares from, but they are from the category, Roberta Horton calls "wonder prints", prints where you can't identify the print rapport.

Block chosen and fabric color palette too: beige, sand, grey, brown, deep red, dust blue, we had to decide the overall design of the blocks: straight or on point?



I made a small "mock up", so we could discuss overall design, color palette and especially a strategy for the background colors for the stars.