Here's the finished quilt, Fractured, from the previous post. The blocks are string pieced 5'' finished squares.
The "liberated" straight lines in the blocks were achieved by making straight line spirals over four blocks at a time.
I've made a few other quilts from Oakshott cottons and I am smitten.
I've saved all the scraps and will be doing some tiny piecing with the leftovers. The fabric is thin enough that I think it will behave really well in tiny piecing.
This quilt uses the Lakes collection, the Ruby Reds collection and the two greys in the Scandinavian collection.
The back of the quilt is also Oakshott; I love it so much that I now want to make a whole cloth quilt with it, or maybe a simple Welsh Bars quilt. I want to hand quilt it and lose myself in the glow of the fabric. I want the quilting and the iridescence of the fabric to take center stage.
I really do wish you could see it in person.
Finished size 51'' x 51''.
I made the blocks back in the summer and at the time thought they needed some sashing between them.
I chose a deep purple for sashing that was out of stock for a while.
Here's the full view.
If you haven't tried any of the Oakshott shot cotton, you really should. It has a beautiful luminescent quality that just can't be captured in a photo. Believe me, I've tried.
