Lava meets sky quilt - still planning

OK, after some valuable feedback from this customer, we are ready for step two in the planning phase.

I was able to find 9 new fabrics to add to the pile - here's a picture:

I got 12 cut pieces from each = 96. That brings the total of cut squares up to 384. If you remember, we need 396. We are still 12 short - and may I just say argh :)

And then I found a quilt on Pinterest (what would I do without it). I pinned it to Quilt Magic - in Motion (don't seem to be able to do a screen shot and get it into the blog - sorry. And thought, what a great idea...

We could use 9 cut pieces from the new fabrics - so that's the same number of cut squares from all the other fabrics. This would give us 360 cut squares - 40 short of the original 396. BUT... if we were to do only 21 rows and 17 columns (1 short of the original design), we would have enough cut squares. Then we'd add a border across one side and either the top or bottom that is solid with a couple of the half-triangle squares - like the quilt from Pinterest.
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What do you think? Are you willing to go asymmetrical?

Here are pictures of all the cut pieces - the new fabric has been added so you can see the variation in color. I went heavy one the dark reds like you mentioned which will add some great depth to the finished piece. 
 

Lava meets sky quilt

I got to start working on this quilt yesterday and am writing this blog for the customer so she can make the decisions necessary to move forward with the project.

First a few definitions:

• A queen size quilt is typically 90" x 108"
• A cut piece - is the first cut from the original fabric
• A block - is what happens when you put the cut pieces together
• A row is made up of a certain number of blocks and then you sew all the rows together and get a quilt top
• To get a queen size quilt, we need 22 rows with 18 blocks in each row
• We need 396 blocks to make this quilt top

Lets start with the fabric you gave me:

• There are 8 Fat Quarters of Blue and 9 of Red that you pulled out of the packages. These pictures are of the cut pieces - 5 1/2 x 5 1/2.
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• Each Fat Quarter gives us 9 cut pieces. This means, we get 153 cut pieces.
• To make the blocks, you put two cut pieces together, cut them in half and sew the two halves together to make a half-triangle block.
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Non selected material:
There are at total of 27 other Fat Quarters in the bundles you gave me.

 

• 7 Orange
• 6 Yellow
• 2 Black and very dark blue
• 6 Gray
• 6 Light Blue
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Decision to be made:

• By only using only 17 of the 44 Fat Quarters, we get less than half the block needed for the size of quilt you want. (396 -153 =243)
• The shades in the 17 Fat Quarters selected will provide some depth to the design but it won't look like the original picture which has some lighter cut pieces in it - but I think you've already agreed to this - just need to be sure you understand your quilt isn't going to have the same pazazz as the pattern.
• Do you want me to get more of the 17 selected Fat Quarters so there is enough for the whole quilt? Or do I use some of the Fat Quarters I already have? Or a combination of these options - you could let me know which ones from the non-selected group you want to include and we'll see where that gets us?