Modern Affection

As I mentioned in my first post, I make quilts. A lot of quilts, actually. Many of them are for one particular client who loves to give quilts as a baby gift. Fortunately for me, she seems to know the most fertile women in the United States! She contacted me a few weeks ago and requested a new baby quilt for a baby boy. This time, though, she was able to provide a mock-up image of the nursery this quilt would be going to. When I saw the very modern design, I knew exactly what I wanted to do.

I already had a Kona charm pack in the New Classic Palette and I knew that I wanted to use Carolyn Friedlander's Architextures fabric for the main portion of the quilt top. My first thought was to do an offset column of tiny squares, like pixels, but to reduce waste and ensure that I had enough fabric in the charm pack, I decided to go with our old friend, the half-square triangle (HST). The wonderful thing about using a charm pack in this small quilt (approximately 35"x41") is that the only waste in the HST's was the tiny points that get clipped off. All together, I think I had 11 squares left over - mostly because they were colors that I didn't want to use.

The biggest challenge in designing this was deciding on the arrangement of the panel. After three different arrangements, I settled on this one - using the lighter shades to make a diamond shape and alternating their placement.

While I really do love how the quilt top turned out, it's the back of the quilt that I truly ADORE! I found this fantastic fabric at Missouri Star Quilt Company. It's Collage - Newspaper Stripe Bruhaus by Carrie Bloomston for Windham Fabrics.

I hope the new baby and his parents love it as much as I do!

Newly Hatched

Hello friends - at least that's what I hope we will become! I'm Julie, the obsessive crafty person creative force here at Knitpickin' Chicken. Allow me to tell you a little bit about myself!

I am a wife and a mom. 

I homeschool my kids and manage my son's Type 1 diabetes.

I quilt. A lot. I used to knit a lot too. I still knit, just not as much!

I have recently started designing and creating my own patterns, which you can find in my Etsy shop.

I am a "blanketeer" for Project Linus and just had the privilege of teaching a class on my Happy Camper quilt at the national Project Linus conference.

My motivation for starting this blog stems from knowing what I like to see from other creative types. I love to get a glimpse of who the person is and seeing how their creative process works!

So stay tuned - I have two patterns in progress that will soon be available and lots of pictures to share of projects that I have been working on.

Now...go make something!