A progression of quilts

A little while back, I stumbled across this post from Daniela of Block M Quilts.  She had taken a class from Katie Pederson of Sew Katie Did.  There were blocks from her Emerald City quilt which is a version of a Psychedelic Baby quilt.  After a brief aha moment and a bit of searching, I decided that I wanted to make one.  Originally, I was going to try to make the center medallion setting, but that requires some wall space I don't currently have set up.  I went for easy.  And blue solids.  I had a fair amount of blue solids and I do like seeing them all together as this is not the first set of blue solid quilts that I have made. 

This was my oops moment of realizing that the white stripe did not line up and I would be bothered.  Using the new optional reading glasses did not seem to help much with picking out seams.  My strips were about 18" long and wide.  The blocks are 12.5" unfinished as that is the size of the ruler.  These create some wonderful quarter log cabin blocks when you trim the blocks.  Correction, one has to sew the off-cuts to create the quarter log cabins.  I chose to do this quickly since the edges are bias and that meant I did not need to worry about the bias edges anymore.

I put these out on the floor like this and liked it so that is the final design I chose.  Rather than piece together blocks of multiple sizes, I either added additional strips or trimmed them to 8.5" unfinished.  

Both of the first two quilts led to some scraps of strip sets.  Since I had a small amount of blue solids left, I chose to cut 7" squares of solids.  These squares were cut into 2.5" and 4.5" pieces to which I added a multi-blue strip set of various sizes.  They were trimmed to 7" squares again to come up with the third quilt top.  

This one might get quilted today if I can finish my work obligations, clean the gutters, clear some ivy and clean up part of the basement.  And why is there a balloon in the toilet?  No, if I did not put a balloon in the toilet, I do not have to take it out of the toilet.  Do not complain to me about how gross it is.  

Both quilts are quilted with a meandering stitch in an attempt to make sure I went over every seam.  I have no idea what all the blue solids are.  They are a combination of various manufacturers.  And none of these have a designated recipient yet.  Most likely, at least one of the three will be donated to Katie's Comforters' Guild.  And, just in case you think this was all this weekend, it has been the work of the last month or so.