Kaleidoskop is one of the most epic quilts I have ever completed. So it's quite mind boggling that when it was completed (in 2019), I never blogged about it.
I began making this quilt in 2015 after Katja Marek released her first book, The New Hexagon. She then ran a monthly sew-along, although of course I could never stay on track as the entire quilt is hand pieced using the English paper piecing method.
From the beginning, I chose to do something I had not done before--use fabric by just one designer, Denyse Schmidt. She had many, many lines that I dearly loved, and released several more lines during the four years it took to complete the quilt top.
I began with the large pink and orange portion in the middle left.
When we were in Pismo shortly after I started, the city was marking the sidewalks for some kind of work. Although I know that this is the marking for the "sewer," I'm so happy they abbreviated it to "sew," as this is one of my all-time favorite process photos.
I always tagged Denyse and a couple of times she sent me fat quarter bundles of a new fabric line. Once, she included the quilt in a video on her website.
Our first choice was this beautiful 1938 Babe Ruth Nash.
However, the brakes were not working on the day we chose to photograph. The owners offered to roll it out into the driveway but that made me really nervous. So instead we decided on the 1937 Ford. Actually, I think the gorgeous deep red was a better backdrop for the quilt and the home.
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