Holy smokes, the Pantone Challenge link party starts NEXT FRIDAY, April 17!
I just returned from being in Washington DC for a week, but right before I left, I managed to finish up my Pantone Challenge quilt top! It’s small (36″ square) so I’m hoping I will be able to finish it before the party starts.
I ended up using this design from Equal, an equilateral triangle design generator I created. In creating this it became quickly obvious that in order to be useful, it really needs to generate the pattern as well, because dang. What a pain!
I showed you a sneak peek a few weeks ago, and something just wasn’t jiving for me. I finally realized that the charcoal grey I was using was too close in value to everything else, so it was all reading as kind of muddy. I didn’t want to go lighter (although I think that would be an interesting look too!) and I didn’t want black so that pretty much left Kona Pepper.
The Kona Pepper was perfect! Just the right amount of contrast, and the bluer undertones worked well with all those violets.
I consciously chose colors that would make the Marsala-ish color (Kona Cocoa here) look more brown than red, and this definitely accomplishes that task!
I have no idea what I’m going to do with this when it’s done, but it has convinced me to develop Equal a bit more and that I want to create another triangle quilt!
Any suggestions on quilting? Maybe straight lines echoing some of the triangles but not all of them?
12 thoughts on “Pantone Challenge Quilt Top”
I love it! The colours are so yummy!
Thank you, Katy! 😀 They’re definitely not my “go to” colors, but it was fun to play in a different sandbox. 🙂
You’re alive!
How about some ricochet quilting?
Hah! Barely. 🙂 One week in DC and NYC but I’m back for now. 🙂 What’s ricochet quilting?
I ‘see’ echo quilting on two sides of some triangles, varying the side combinations across the colours and sizes 🙂
I love these colours together, so rich
Oooh, I like that idea. I will do some sketching in Illustrator to figure out which triangles to echo, and see how it looks overall! Thank you!
Your quilt top turned out amazing. A bit of FMQ with an echoed triangle-ish improv shape would work well.
You used the FMQ word. Do you kiss your granddaughter with that mouth?!? 😉 Okay okay, triangle shapes are definitely going to happen, but I don’t know that I can face FMQing them.
Love that Kona Pepper. Nothing like a deadline to get the fingers stitching!
Thank you! I was amazed at what a difference it made! Definitely well worth the seam ripping. 🙂
If it weren’t for deadlines, I’d complete NOTHING.
That’s come out brilliantly! 🙂 Can’t wait to see how the quilting comes out – echoing sounds like it could produce some really nice results. I’m trying to FMQ my Equal top and am making the most hilarious mess of it – but at least I’m learning a lot!
I really need to get over my hesitance for FMQ!! I bet your FMQ looks better than you’re giving it credit for. 🙂 But I did in fact do some echo quilting. I just finished it, although I’m letting it sit for a bit to look at with fresh eyes to decide if it needs more or not. It looks a tad chaotic now. HAH!