From A - Contraflow

Living in California has largely exempt me from the usual Canadian winter fare of blizzards, freezing rain, darkness and grey. That said, an ice storm with its related bad roads and power outages greeted me when I returned to Toronto for the holidays.

Upon returning to California early in the New Year, I was more than ready to rebel against the cold and grey. Never one for half measures, I grabbed the brightest, most colourful fabric in my stash and started playing.

This is a layer cake of Kate Spain's Terrain collection. I chopped it up and covered the floor of our spare bedroom with bits of fabric until I settled on a layout that grouped similar colours into columns.

I began sewing strips of fabric together into a Contraflow quilt. This pattern is great. Super simple with no seams to match. The biggest challenge with this project will be its size. The extra few rows of blocks I am planning to add are going to turn this quilt into something very close to Queen-sized.

Slow but steady progress is being made on this one (part of that might be my desire to reclaim my guest room floor). Looking forward to finishing up the top and seeing how it comes together.

What have you been working on?

 

Linking up to WiP Wednesday over at Freshly Pieced.