This is from the deco daybreak quilt pattern found in the recent modern quilting magazine I previewed a few posts back. I decided tooled down my fabric selection to feature a bunch of fat eighths I got from the Heather Ross Mendocino collection that had been reprinted recently. I remember the first time I saw one of the designs that had been named swim sister's and scoured everywhere for the fabric. This was actually about a year after it's release so I sadly didn't find any.
The idea to fit the fabric with this pattern was because the design reminded me of fish scales. The leap from fish to mermaid wasn't a big one.
The layout is suppose to look like the sun setting over the ocean with the yellows in the center as the sun, the blues as the sea, and the pinks as the sky. I didn't make the half hexes as big as the pattern called for because I didn't want to do such a big quilt, but I am adding extra rows at the top and bottom to play with the sun setting element and get it as big as I want to.
This pattern calls for paper piecing the half hexes and I personally love paper piecing. It's a great way to get a perfect seam or point especially with difficult patterns. I have been going extra slow on this one because it's actually been a design as I go process.
I know I wanted to go from light to dark on all my blocks so I will lay them out radiating from the center of the row and try to pick what goes next from there. I haven't done much designing on paper for this one simply because of the layout already present in the magazine. I haven't needed much reference from it once I got the first few rows started, and I only redid one of my blocks because I thought the color change wasn't working.
On another note today's tea was made from brewing blueberry tea and pomegranate tea together. Both teas came from a sampler I got from disney. It is very good. The blueberry flavoring sticks out a lot in this tea. I would think it would be a great tea for the summer. The brand is only available at the disney parks. It makes a great souvenir because I always think of my time at the park when I go to make my tea, and I especially like their mad hatter tea party blend.
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