Tuesday, December 14, 2010

First Red Quilt


I made this quilt a few years ago in a class with Kaffe Fassett. The pattern is called Square Clamshell. The instructions are in his book, Museum Quilts. He directed us to cut a lot of squares and put them up on the design wall as quickly as we could. This helped us use our intuition, rather than thinking too much.



The Rebels helped me figure out what to do for sashing and borders. I was amazed at how many colors it takes to make a red quilt!

25 comments:

  1. Wow it does take a lot of reds. Love it!

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  2. That is one beautiful quilt! Love all those reds.

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  3. OMG!! I just love it!! Love the color, the design, the fact that Kaffe helped!! WOW!! Love it!!

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  4. I like the touch of cool color added. Great!

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  5. I don't think i saw this one! I love it! that red! it just makes me so happy! ;-) You got good intuition my friend!

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  6. You have the best color sense!! Great Quilt!!

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  7. Wow!!! that sashing really pulls it all together - inspired choice.

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  8. Wow!!! Really love the stripes for sashings and inner borders.....you know how I love stripes.
    Bonnie

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  9. Gorgeous!!! With the singing notes....
    I love your reds.. you do such great job with colors. Mine is still in the box...It was a fun class!

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  10. Absolutely stunning! Sounds like a great class!

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  11. Sensational red quilt! Could be habit-forming tho.....(I'm hooked on red, myself)

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  12. Simply spectacular. The sashing is perfect. Love those reds

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  13. The setting of the squares is fabulous and the blue grey is perfect for the quilt. I love Kaffe Fassett fabrics and your red quilt has gone into my favourites. Fantastic!!

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  14. Hey LeeAnn, You are making my skirt fly up again! Fabulous quilt! I luv it! Happy sewing!

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  15. A beautiful quilt, the colors are great together!

    Merry Xmas from Germany
    Veronika

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  16. So intense and rich in color - a great quilt! I love what you do with the color red.

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  17. I made the same quilt in rust. I just love it. Yours is great in red, especially with the stripy blue sashing around the blocks.

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  18. It's beautiful! The stripes and plaids looks so good in it too. Perfect sashing color.

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  19. oh WOW!!!! this is SO GORGEOUS. I absolutely love it.

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