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Exploring Quilting Basics

February Block Remix- Lady of the Lake quilt block

March 1, 2023February 27, 2023 Post a comment

Hi friends! Today I am sharing about my recent block remix challenge of the Lady of the Lake quilt block!

Lake of the Lake quilt block

This is the lady of the Lake quilt block.

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image of a quilt block in teal and white.

The center is a large HST and it is surrounded by smaller HST units. A block with it’s own border!

And it is often a 2 color quilt using a positive and negative color scheme.

It’s a great quilt block!

Picking Fabrics

For my remix, I wanted to do a gradient of color and since I usually go for bright and brighter, I wanted to mix it up. Last month, I made the Moda Love Charm quilt! I posted about it on Instagram but in case you didn’t see it, here it is!

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image of a wall quilt hanging in black and whites.

I found this charm pack in my stash from Zen Chic called Modern Background – Paper, paired it with a black solid I found in my stash and ta-da!

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image of a quilt pattern, charm pack and black fabric.

Love that it all came from my stash- even the backing fabric. And I quilted all by myself. A big thing I assure you!

Back to the Lady of the Lake block…

I really liked how my Moda Love quilt came out so I decided on a gradation of grey colors and picked up these Cherrywood fabrics at my favorite local quilt shop, Wooden Spools.

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image of a gradation of grey fabrics with black and white

Aren’t they great? One of the grey has a hint of blue in it which will be so fun in the block.

The Design

After playing around, rotating the HST units, adding lines, taking lines away, I finally landed on this version for my final block.

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image of a grey and black quilt block

As you can see, you can still see the original block in my version. I just tweaked it!

FirstI rotated some of the border HST units, made the center block into 4 colors and the matched the colors from the center to the HST units in the border.

I also added the white to the HST units in the corners for a secondary pattern when the blocks are put together. You know I LOVE a good secondary pattern!

Piecing the Block

I started making all my HST units. For some reason I made this block small so they are small.

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image of a collection of grey held square triangle units

Once I had all the border HST units and then center made, the it was a case of sewing borders. That proved to be trickier than I thought- not hard sewing, just keeping them in the right color order and going the right way!

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image a a quilt block in progress of being pieced

Of course, in the photo above I hadn’t finished the center of the block yet, so n wonder I messed up the order!

My NEW Lady of the Lake quilt block – a small quilt!

And here is my small quilt!

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Image of a grey and black small quilt

Love it!

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Closeup of quilting of the small quilt

OK – what do you think? I was going to make the larger quilt, but I didn’t get enough fabric.

Top US quilting blog and shop, Kate Colleran Designs, shares about her remix of the Lady of the Lake quilt block! Digital image of a larger grey and black quilt

I would like to try it again in a different color palette.

What colors would you use?

I have had so much fun doing these quilt block remixes and seeing what other designers have come up with! I even have turned a couple of the remixes into quilt patterns and I hope to do a few more.

But, we have decided, after 2 years of doing quilt block remix challenges, to end the challenges. I’m going to miss them but it is time.

Maybe a Mystery?

I am debating doing something with one of the blocks I was looking forward to playing with… maybe it will be a Mystery challenge with all of you in the fall!

In the meantime, did you see I am running a MSYTERY QAL in March?

Graphic of the Luna Mystery QAL

I will do a blog post on it next week but you can get more information here and purchase the pattern to work on what fabrics you will use!

On to the next quilt!

happy quilting,

Kate

p.s. Local peeps- did you see I am teaching at StitchFest in Loveland this April? As I wind down my quilt teaching career, this will be a fun way to go out with a blast! I am teaching 4 of my most popular classes!

Graphic of StitchFest quilt show

Click here to learn more about StitchFest!

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