Joie De Vivre
| Joie de Vivre Quilt |
Joie de Vivre is a string pieced king, sized quilt made for my daughter, Carly. She chose the pattern from a quilt pin saved on my Pinterest page. The directions were simple, using only one star in the quilt, but she required a large quilt, so her quilt is made using 20 star blocks. Fabrics chosen coordinated with one focus fabric, mostly bright yet medium value colored fabrics collected throughout the year.With so many strips in each block, a lot of different fabrics were required so as not to duplicate fabrics. I'm not certain how many fabrics were used, but it was quite a few!
Each block was constructed of 16--6 1/2 inch squares string pieced on a muslin square. Strings were cut one inch, one and 1/4 inch, one and 1/2 inch, one and 3/4 inch and two inch strips. I began by making the split block, using half light and half bright fabrics. Each block required 8 of these. The quilt was so massive, I made each block separately, sewing all 16 squares together to complete each 24 inch block.
When piecing a large quilt, it's easy to become bored and set aside the blocks to complete smaller projects. But that didn't happen with this one. When you love the fabrics as much as I loved these, I kept plugging away until it was completed. Like birthing a baby, this quilt was nine months in the making!
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| Center blocks using medium value fabrics |
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| Corner blocks using light fabrics |
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| Finished quilt! |
