the intersection of Friedlander and Carkai

I started this quilt top with the intention of remaking my Intersection quilt (tutorial here). I made 4 blocks, chopped them up, sewed them back together into the intersection blocks… and didn’t like them!

Luckily though, I do like these blocks as they are prior to chopping them up and sewing them back together, and set on point I like them even more!

They’re made up of all Carolyn Friendlander fabrics (along with just a couple Kona solids that complemented). I bought a bundle of Carolyn’s latest, Friedlander, from my local shop, Nido, and loved how they looked with my left over prints from Carkai (and there might be a couple from older lines that snuck in too…)

I said it on Instagram, and I’ll say it again here, I don’t think I’ll ever tire of Carolyn’s prints! It certainly doesn’t hurt that all her lines pair so nicely with one another. And it also doesn’t hurt that she provides such a great variety of colors/prints/scale.

I used one of her low volume prints for the center of each square, and bordered it in two of the prints. Rather than making the entire quilt out of these blocks, I decided to use what I had already made and fill in the rest with squares of the low volume prints. The random pointy triangles on the sides? Not sure. I made a few and then felt I should use them!

It was a beautiful day for photos at the lake. Unlike some years, Lake Champlain has not frozen over entirely, though you can see a section of frozen lake and then the open water behind us here (never fear, Morgan is standing on solid ground – he’s not a fan of walking on the ice!)

This entry was posted in Fabric, Posts about Quilts, Quilt Blocks and tagged , , , , , , . Bookmark the permalink.

13 Responses to the intersection of Friedlander and Carkai

  1. Pingback: FITF: framed | Film in the Fridge

Leave a Reply to Kaholly Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *