Introducing . . .

I made a "sharp left turn" in my last post

when I shared that I am NOT going to make

the twelfth Dumpster Diving quilt.

I also shared that the boxes of reds and brights on blacks

would be repurposed into a different scrappy quilt -

one that didn't require so many hours of prep work.

Well . . . guess what?

THIS is what those strips are going to become.

I made a Lava Lamps quilt named Milestone 

in 2010 but later sold it to a co-worker.

Since then I've always wanted to make 

another non-KF version for myself.

That time has finally arrived.

I cut paper shapes slightly larger than the outline of my templates

and set to work piecing a few test blocks.

I want to piece each block one strip at a time

so I can use wider pieces at the top and the bottom

instead of making yards of random strata

and cutting the block shapes from that. 

I really don't enjoy paper piecing so I'm using my own method

that incorporates Marit's "flip the base out of the way" technique

much like I did when I made Feisty last year.

Except this time I am taping the first strip of fabric

to the base shape so there will be no paper to "rip" away.

Here are two test blocks for the partial end blocks.

If you look closely you can see my template

laying on top of the red strata.

(DH made them for me when I made that 2010 quilt)

Here is one of the red strata with the full block template on top.

OH, MY!  

YES!  YES!  YES!

This one is not likely to go back into the "pending" closet.

I am going "off script" in order to make

44 brights on black and 44 red blocks

PLUS

however many of each color I'll need

to make for the partial end blocks 

since they are not "one orientation fits all."

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I hinted at the project's name at the top of the post.

Introducing . . . DRAMA QUEEN.

Quiltdivajulie

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"Red protects itself.  No other colour is as territorial.  It stakes a claim, is on the alert against the spectrum." (Derek Jarman)

AND

“Women who wear black lead colorful lives.”  (Neiman Marcus)