Take Five Quilt

This is the quilt I made in tandem with the blue quilt I just wrote about.  I used a pattern called Take Five  .  The idea is that you take five minutes to choose five fabrics and sew this quilt in five hours. It took me more than five hours, of course.  I was attracted to the pattern because I wanted to make a bold, modern quilt for son #2 and his wife and the sample of this pattern in my favorite quilt store appealed to me.  I also thought a more modern style would fit their taste better.  Browns and greens are favorite colors.  In fact, the shiny fabric I used for the label was part of the favors given out at their wedding last year.  Once the blocks are made in this pattern you can change the orientation for a more random effect.  I choose to leave the blocks in the original orientation.  I liked the pattern that the different fabrics created along the diagonal of the quilt.

My piecing is still not completely even but this pattern camoflauges a lot of that.  I decided to quilt it with a diagonal pattern and rather than make the pattern itself even throughout the piece, I quilted from corner to corner of each square following the irregularities of the piecing.  I love the result.  I don't think that the eye notices when the lines are slightly off from each other, but the eye does seem to appreciate the centered X in each block.

I'm going to take a bit of a break from quilts for awhile.  I have several small projects I want to work on and the yard is looking a bit scraggly again.  But I'm already thinking about what my next quilt project will be!