It’s Friday, which means it’s time again for the Quilt Design A Day roundup!
I don’t have any interesting stories to share today. It’s super hot and my free time is full of quilting. Did any of you see Real Genius? It was my favorite movie in High School, and I think I saw it every day the summer before I left for college. Man was THAT a let down. Anyway, now anytime someone says it’s hot I think in my head “it was hot and I was hungry!” There’s the non-sequitur for the day!
At some point in the QDAD group, we decided to have a series of group challenges. This particular design was for the 9-patch challenge. I wanted to make a 9 patch that didn’t look like a 9 patch, so I put it on point and colored it to hide the edges. Of course at that point it’s just patchwork but let’s not get technical.
Apparently I was all about the dessert colors this particular week. The challenge for this day was stars. I really want to make a stars quilt but haven’t had a chance to yet. But I love the idea of a field of stars with one bright one outlined in hand quilting.
And thus began medallion week. The challenge was to create a central medallion, then add a border every day for a week. This was SO MUCH FUN. In some ways I wish I’d done something a little less themed, but I very much want to make the medallion quilt I created. My design was centered around a tribute to retro video games. The designs are inspired by the games but are not exact replicas. The center is my take on Space Invaders. I added a scan line like old TVs used to have to add a bit of interest.
The second border is my nod to Pac-Man. It makes a nice breather border!
At this point in the Medallion challenge, I got a bit loosey goosey with the colors, but I did try to incorporate one or two from the inspiration images. At about this point I decided to add the games in order of when they came out. So next up was Donkey Kong. I am particularly proud of the barrels.
Next up was Frogger. I had a lot of trouble with this one. It went through a ton of iterations (and I actually ended up changing it again the next day.) I was struggling with not having the design get so large as to be ridiculous, so each border had to stay fairly small. I also went back and added a scan line in the donkey kong border, so the central image wasn’t the only one that had one.
You can see the change to the Frogger border I did with this one. Much better!
I also added in the Tetris border which was created by the world’s worst Tetris player. There are still a couple more borders to go, but they’ll show up next week!
And that’s another week of designs! I hope you all have a creative weekend!
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Ha, over here we can’t say “it’s hot” without adding “and you need a pool.” This is a springtime variation of it, but omg suffice it to say this ran through my entire childhood: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbDs6XvTV5k
Love the dessert star.
Hahahah that’s fantastic. She’s very enthusiastic! 😉 I suppose the advert worked, though!
Dessert tones = whispers of Argyle; I like that reference to “dessert star” above, and “it’s gonna get me, I know it’s gonna get me”. Being too geriatric for Pac Man, Donkey Kong and all the other vintage arcade, I’m a little lost in the references. However, that little Lego car looks like fun (in the Frogger border). AND, I can’t wait to see you piece this one.
Back to my 100 Hunter’s stars.
I do love argyle and plaid. Just wait, in a couple months you’re going to get a couple week of plaid blocks as I just finished a run of them. 😀
Biggest postage stamp quilt ever. Yikes!
I hope your 100 hunters stars went well!
I love the video game one and so did my husband 🙂 In fact, it inspired him to finally sit down and figure out the design for his quilt (I am making it!)
Oh awesome!! I wanna see! 😀 If you don’t mind sharing, that is. 🙂 I haven’t worked up the courage to even get the fabrics for the video game medallion behemoth. It got rather large in the end!
That’s too funny. I was checking out your design for the video game quilt, and thinking about how the Tetris player wasn’t too good right before I read on to find out that you were thinking the same way.
HAhahaha while I was working on the design, I was thinking “oh man, this is going to drive my gaming friends insane.” Sure enough, a lot of them mentioned how poor of a Tetris player the person must be. lol
Omg, I really hope that medallion quilt gets made one day. It’s fabulous!!!
I hope to. It would definitely be a true labor of love, and also about a billion pounds given all those seams it would require. But I will have to try it anyway. 🙂
If you ever do a pattern for this I would love to try it! I grew up with all these too! I still play a little Mario and donkey kong! Thanks so much!
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I will definitely let you know! 🙂 I generally get weirded out about copyright issues when it comes to designs based on video games, but I could probably post the yardage requirements if nothing else, and the design itself shows the pixel placement. Not as nice as a real pattern, but doable!