quilt!

[iridium]

i picked up a ridiculous quantity of swatches of tie silk at the Depot last week. i bought two packs of one particular pattern -- a small-curlicue brocade with little dots -- with the idea of making a quilt. as it turns out, each of the ~150 swatches is a slightly different color, woven from a combination of 4 (or more) colors of thread. the shades range through golds, sage-greens, reds, blues, purples, and a little bit of black and silver.

thanks to snowninja7's enablement, i got started on the quilt this weekend, and just finished stitching the first set of pieces together. i thought about planning out some fancy pattern with piecework and/or colors...and then decided that while that would in theory produce an absolutely amazingly gorgeous quilt, the thing would never actually get sewn, and i'd have much less fun. so instead i went with my usual kamikaze approach, and i'll end up with a patchwork quilt made with gorgeous brocade silk.

each patch-square is ~5" x 5"; there will be 9 blocks, each 5 squares on a side. haven't decided yet if i'm going to just do a solid 15 x 15, put a border on the outside, or if i'll separate the 5 x 5 blocks with a border of some sort in between. also haven't decided what to use for the backing. but here's the first step: 23 sets of 5 swatches stitched together.
my tiny backpocket camera can't do the colors or the detail justice, sadly. but here are photos anyway, because making-things is good for the soul and the sanity.
the stitched swatches:


and a bit more of a closeup on the fabric:



the next step is to cut them into strips, then arrange the strips into blocks.

Comments

[iridium.livejournal.com]

thank you! i'm going to have to borrow someone else's camera to try to get a better photo of the colors & detail, though. these fabrics are ridiculous.

(i have 21 swatches of woven argyle silk. *boggle* so, of course, i'm gonna make patchwork argyle wrap-pants. possibly with a dagged hem, since i have to turn the square patches on the bias anyhow. and then they will be just about the suavest pants ever. awwwwww yeah.)