Tag: GravityQuilt

Gravity Quilt – background

Since Sassy Southern Sewing, I continued working on Gravity. The grey monotone background was very fast to cut. The kit provided generous amounts of extra fabric so recutting a mistake was no problem. In fact, i cut extra triangles, diamonds and hexagons with the left overs. I plan to make pillow covers with them. 

 

Photo of grey background pieces and blocks
Grey background pieces and blocks for Gravity Quilt cut out very fast. Pictured shows the layout for one section.
 
Putting the colored blocks and grey tone blocks together took me about 10 hours. Ten hours at a retreat with some of my favorite women in the world with good food and sangria. I could have done it in less time, but at retreat is so much more fun and I worked on it in two days instead of hours spread over weeks. 

Gravity QuiltnBlock 9 – Voyage

#Gravityquilt has been a blast so far. I’ve been at a sewing conference, Sassy Southern Sewing, this week. At night, I sew on this quilt. This block webt together really fast. It has been a nice break from the more complicated blocks 7 and 8.  Here is block 9.  

 

Gravity Block 9 – Voyagr

The colorful blocks of #gravityquilt are done now. Block 9 was easier than block 7 and 8. Jaybird has planned this pattern really well. After this I need to do all the grey monotone background area. Boy, do Inhave a lot of strips to cut now. 

I changed the order again. Look at the color values of the blue and orange. You’ll see how a simple change of the light to dark values really change the appearance of the block.

  

Gravity Block 8 – Eclipse

The Eclipse block of #GravityQuilt builds upon a previous block that had one Y seam. It looked hard at first, but I followed the instructions step by step and it just went together. I did reverse one color pair and decided to leave it. Of the pair, I think I like that block better. What do you think?

  

Gravity Quilt Block 7 – Cosmic

Volunteering at a sewing conference means I don’t get to sew, except in my room after dinner. The Jaybird Gravity Quilt pattern is plotted out very well. The skills you learn build upon the previous blocks. I am finding the instructions have been really well done. And, I am learning a lot. #GravityQuilt is not a boring kit, it’s actually fun. 

Here is block 7. 

  

Gravity was intimidating but now it’s not. 

I saw a quilt kit that really wowed me. I usually grab a kit that’s on sale just for the fabric bundle. This kit by Jaybird Quilts is simply beautiful. And looked really complicated. Normally I stay away stars, but I have a compulsion to do this one. Using a special set of rulers (you can make this quilt from templates), Inhave found this is way easier than it looks. Lots of best press to stiffen up and prevent bias cuts from stretching it helping too. 

Here are my first four blocks for my #GravityQuilt

   
     

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