Gradient HSTs quilt a.k.a. Dawn to Dusk

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It started with some fabrics....

Carkai (and some Doe) by Carolyn Friedlander for Robert Kaufman

Karen Lewis Textiles and Blueberry Park (the latter for Robert Kaufman)

...and inspiration from this mini I made in the Blueberry Park swap (and now famous as featured in Australia's Make Modern Magazine, issue 12)

I LOVE how well Karen's and Carolyn's fabrics wrk together. For this quilt I excluded all fabrics with flowers as I wanted a more "masculine" look to it. Having been a regular customer of Karen's including signed up to her fabric club, I still had plenty to chose from.

Along the way, there was on casualty....

Testing various layouts in the blue section


All sewn together

I am trying to decide if I'll add a border, as I did on the mini version, and then this one is going off for longarm quilting. It'll be too much swearing involved if I was to do this one on my own machine. 


 Links:
Karen Lewis Textiles,
Blueberry Park, Robert Kaufman,
Carkai, Robert Kaufman

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