Wednesday 15 February 2012

Dead Simple



It started months ago, when the fabulous Lynne at Lily's Quilts posted her Dead Simple Quilt Along. I loved the whole idea of it, but I just never found the time to pick my pallette from the brilliant Design Seeds website.

Some really beautiful quilts popped up in flickr and on blogs, and I desperately wanted to make one, but still there was no time.

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Photo from Oakshott website

The other day Lynne blogged a giveaway featuring Oakshott cotton fabrics. I've used Oakshott cotton before, when I made Judith's blocks for her Brit Bee Quilt and knew how gorgeous they are, so when I saw this gorgeous bundle on sale at Oakshott I couldn't help but buy it. It was delivered yesterday and I thought about it all day.

Last night after work I stayed up until 3am, pulling fabric from my stash to add to that gorgeous bundle, and cut them into 9" squares.

This morning I made this

Dead Simple Quilt top

I. Love. It!

The colours are far mare saturated and gorgeous than the iphone pictures show. It reminds me of exciting holidays to far-flung countries, when my boyfriend (now husband) and I used to save our pennies and disappear off with backpacks, a guidebook and only a vague plan of where we were actually going.

I want to quilt it right now. It's half-term and the kids are at my Mum's for a sleepover (which is why I could stay up until 3am!) so I think I make make a start on it, but first I'm going to get a coffee and stare at it some more, and dream about another exciting holiday......

Fiona x

28 comments:

  1. You go girl! Total rock chic :-) Shoulda waited till my fabric arrived though, the hot pink dandelion print would go really well with the dark. Maybe use it on the back or something? It looks awesome by the way, I love the pop of green!

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  2. Those colours are truly delicious! It's lovely that it evokes some wonderful memories for you - oh the power of colour, pattern & quilt making! Jxo

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  3. That palette is fantastic! love it!

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  4. Gorgeous! Love those rich, delicious colours.

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  5. It's wonderful! the colours are so vibrant!

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  6. Your quilt reminds of the colours of spices, Oakshott fabric is gorgeous, I have a fat8th bundle awaiting my inspiration of what to make with it!

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  7. Looks sooo wonderful!!! Love all the saturated colors.

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  8. Yay for the Oakshott Dead Simple gang!
    Looks totally awesome - hurry up, I want to see it finished xxx

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  9. Ooh playing with oakshotts does look like fun... Looks great! Enjoy your wee break :-)

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  10. Pure dead brilliant by the way... ;o) Hope you got a nap in too, enjoy your sewing time!

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  11. Ooh that looks awesome. Love the floral that sneaked in too!!

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  12. looks gorgeous Fiona, the oakshott cottons are stunning! I still have the bundle I won last year but haven't dared cut into them yet. Thanks for linking up to my quilt :) Strong colours do seem to be quite tricky to capture properly on camera.

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  13. Congratulations on this "Exotic Beauty"!!! You've made me want to try something like this! Wonderful!

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  14. Oh and thank you so much for the link! I'm still pretty proud of that one since my mum loves it :)

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  15. Fab!! Really love the rich colours. I have a bundle of Oakshotts I just take out and stroke sometimes, they are beautiful ;-)

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  16. it's beautiful and vibrant - sometimes the fabrics just have to speak for themselves and these sing!

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  17. Stunning quilt - I can't believe you were cutting/stitching into the wee small hours and didn't injure yourself or your fabric!

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  18. Even before I read about it I thought it reminded me of exotic places! Lovely colours.

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  19. Wondering how you will quilt this but now you have me wanting shot cottons too!

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  20. It's beautiful and I bet even nicer in person with those wonderful shot cottons!

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  21. ack! LOVE the color intensity. That's quilt I could get my fiance to thumbs up!

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  22. Beautiful, love the colours and the simplicity of squares

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  23. Ooooooo this is gorgeous! I've always opted for the earthy shades before with Oakshott but you've opened my eyes! and got me thinking about holidays :) x

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