Natalie's Quilt

As I was sewing these blocks together I wasn't sure I was liking the color combination.  However when I was through, I stepped back and looked at it...I really like it.  I hope Natalie likes it too. 

Natalie's quilt

One of my daughter's friends just graduated from Virginia Tech in Architecture and I thought I'd make her a lap quilt as a graduation gift.  This is the perfect opportunity (like I need a reason) to make my first solids quilt.  Natalie loves gray, so this is the palette I chose:

The colors from top to bottom are: Kona Coal, Country Classics Gray, Kona Ash, somebody's light teal, Connecting Thread's Cornflower, Kona White, and Connecting Thread's Brick.

Next choice was the pattern.  I wanted to do some sort of log cabin with wonky squares.  I couldn't find a pattern online, but in the search process I found a great tutorial about how to use Photoshop to design a quilt.  Well...that sounded like a wonderful idea.  Use this link to find this tutorial: http://www.freshlemonsquilts.com/?p=901

It was so much easier than I expected.  What a nice surprise.  I decided to make a quilt that was 4 blocks by 5 blocks with each block being 12 inch squares.  I made 2 basic blocks and just rotated them and changed the color combination to make them unique.  Here is the quilt I ended up with using the palette I picked. Pretty good, huh?

Today I cut out all my fabrics.  I made WOF strips based on the Photoshop dimensions and cut them into the proper size.  Here is an example of the pieces making up the first block:

So now I will keep my fingers crossed that I did all my measurements correctly.  We'll see when I begin sewing tomorrow.