Red, Black, White, and Gray All Over Quilt

[MareMare]

I'm so excited for this quilt! My cousin is having a baby boy, due tomorrow. Her nursery colors are red, black, and white.  I made her a quilt top, then decided that I hadn't used enough of the fat quarter set I had bought (First Sight from Michael Miller) so I started on another one, which I ended up completing first. The other quilt is basted, just needs to be quilted and bound. Hopefully I'll have that one done to share tomorrow, I want to send these out friday!

I had found a quilt online on the blog SquaresandTriangles .com that was made really simply with half square triangles, with half of each triangle being white, and they were all oriented the same way. I used white kona, added in 3 different shades of gray fabric, and made half square triangles like they were going out of business! I liked the idea of keeping the red as squares to break up the hst's. I added in the four solid gray squares for more visual interest + a desire to not make any more half square triangles. The dark gray is an ikea sheet set that I've used on a couple projects now.

I just made 16 patch blocks, then arranged them in a 4 x 4 grid. Simple pattern, but it did take me quite a bit of time to complete!









I really like the quilting I did on it, I first did a diagonal line going through each large block, then quilted one walking food length on each column of blocks, then turned the quilt and did the same on each row.



I don't know if I've used a striped fabric for a binding before but I like how it looks! I found the striped fabric in the close out room of my fabric store and it fit perfectly! And was like, $5 a yard!

[Deece in MN]

Soo cute!  Very nice and perfect for a baby!  Even though these are not my colors, I love it!

[MissingWillow]

That came out great!

[alteredmommy]

great fabric choices for those colours, it turned out awesome!

[LimeRiot]

GASP!! I love that, Mare! I really like the randomly placed grey squares. They add such an interesting dimension.

[HSG]

Absolutely beautiful, Mare. Your quilts are so well done.

[alwaysinmyroom]

I think this might just be my favorite quilt that you have shown us!!!!

Mare--you are always willing to share your techniques and process in making your quilts...they are so inspirational...jus t WOW!

[Penguinofsorts]

Very visually stunning!  I love it!!

[MareMare]

Thanks, everyone! I need to get off my heiny and go quilt the second quilt!

I think this might just be my favorite quilt that you have shown us!!!!

Mare--you are always willing to share your techniques and process in making your quilts...they are so inspirational...jus t WOW!

Aw, thank you!

[lvl0rg4n]

Ha! I thought this was a MineSweeper quilt from the thumbnail. It's very nice though!

[MareMare]

Ha! I thought this was a MineSweeper quilt from the thumbnail. It's very nice though!

lol! That's great!

[AmyLynn98]

OMG, I thought this too!!! It's a very nice quilt with a random pattern, but can I say...I was a little disappointed for some reason that it wasn't a Minesweeper quilt? I don't even like that game. 

Ha! I thought this was a MineSweeper quilt from the thumbnail. It's very nice though!

[MareMare]

That sounds like a good idea for a quilt!

[pjherbert]

Beautiful MareMare! That was a lot of work!

[funthreads]

That's fabulous!! I love the layout and color choices. What a wonderful gift.

[MareMare]

I showed it at my quilt guild tonight and it got a nice response!

[alwaysinmyroom]

no kidding!  what is there NOT to love about that quilt!

[MareMare]

It's possible that they were just excited because it was the last quilt in show and tell and the meeting had run over on the hottest day of the year in a barely air conditioned room lol!

[toomuchstuff]

To me the thumbnail looked like the periodic table-- it's amazing!

[MareMare]

Thanks! Hmm, I feel like I've seen an actual periodic table quilt!

[Trish Fantastic]

Very cool.

[Chainmaille]

Lovely work!

[SiFi Mom]

I so admire those of you that can do all those tiny triangles in quilts so well.  Your quilt is lovely, and I love the fact that your friend used non traditional colours for the nusery.  Very pretty.

[MareMare]

Baby Charlie was born Saturday! I still haven't sent this or finished the second quilt, gah!

[mandodeb]

I love this quilt!  The fabrics and colors look great together. 

[MareMare]

Hey all, when I posted this originally I wanted to give credit to the original quilt that gave me the idea, but I couldn't find it at the time. I found it today and it is here~

http://www.squaresandtriangles.com/half-square-triangle-quilt-part-ii-67

[wendiek]

When you posted this, I was having a great vacation! Thanks to your "Michael Miller First Sight Quilt #2" I get to see this one too!

Very lovely! That must have been a lot of work! All those teeny tiny triangles! I admire your skills... 

Now I will check out the link you gave us!

[taschevapartner]

Great quilt. The fabrics with the red, black and white patterns are so beautiful. Also - great present idea for a baby.

[TroubleT]

Minesweeper was my first thought when I saw the thumbnail.

Either way, it's GORGEOUS!

[kjlutz]

looks great, I love the quilting you did and the fabrics you chose.