Hello all! It’s been a while since I posted a bona fide, start to finish, made with my own two hands kind of quilt. I made this Spider Web, aka Kaleidoscope, in a fabric exchange with my Elmhurst "Piecemakers" quilt group.
Our theme was “pastels,” and each participant contributed six yards worth of assorted pastel strips, precut into ( ) widths.
On the day of the swap, three banquet tables overflowed with pastel strips of every hue. We circled around the room to the festive rhythm of “Macarena,” snatching a strip from each table we passed. Between the music, laughter, and fabric flying we looked more like a drunken conga line than our usual sedate selves. "Hey, Macarena!"
After sorting and sewing our strips into sets, we used this handy 45 Degree Kaleidoscope Wedge Ruler to cut the eight segments needed for each block.
Coordinating the colors within each block was fun...
but I liked the scrappiness of mixing random strips almost as much.
Nothing went to waste. Even leftover strips found their way into my scrappy border.
I put a 1930s-style print on the back and bound the quilt in pink.
