Organized Chaos

Here's my version of Sujata Shah's wonderful pattern,

"Organized Chaos."  

It's a joy to make, and a great way to use scraps.

The color scheme started with this home decorator fabric.  

A friend and I took on the challenge to make a quilt with it.

I thought I might use it as the border. 

In the end, both the fabric and the quilt shouted, "No!"

I quilted it with wool batting, and stitched in the ditch along the outside edge of each block. 

Then I added perle cotton 8 details.

Keeping with the scrappy theme, the back is a hodgepodge of large scraps.

You can purchase the pattern at Sujata's etsy shop here.

Meanwhile, I was fooling around with some "orphan" blocks. 

And the challenge fabric found it's home!  

On the Design Wall

A few weeks ago, I took a class with the wonderful Sujata Shah called "Organized Chaos."

I used the fabric on the left for the color scheme.

Sujata said, "These blocks are like potato chips."

She was right!  I just kept making more and more.  

And more!  I was having so much fun, I decided to make it a queen size quilt.

I've always been fascinated by kaleidoscope quilts, and 

Sujata's pattern has a special twist.

I just love the way some of the blocks seem to burst out of their seams!

This is about half the quilt, not yet sewn together.

My design wall isn't big enough for the whole thing, so I'll make one section at a time.

A final check on value before I begin sewing the rows together.  

OK, ready to sew!