Another Welsh blanket quilt - or two!?

Having made a couple of versions of Mary Emmens' welshblanket quilt Caernarfon I jumped at the chance to repeat the process when she asked for pattern testers for her new pattern - St David's Cross.


I have a pinterest board with some colour combinations provided by the company Design Seeds and there was one that leapt out at me for this five colour pattern.  I don't really make quilts inspired by a photo like this and thought it would be fun to try it out (idea pinched from Lynne @Lily's Quilts)

So this was my inspiration but it took me quite a while to find the fabrics that I could use for this colour scheme.  Eventually I decided to use some dark brown and greys from my stash and sourced these at @simplysolids :  

Squared Elements in Watermelon

Linea in Cream, and 

Tucker Prairie Tiny Crosses in Coral Bells

And then I had the joy of making the blocks - in two colourways - to make my from-the-start doublesided quilt.  Well I had to test my theory that it would be easier to Quilt As You Go to make a double sided quilt as doing it after putting the tops together was a little bit tricky.

With Mary's quick strip-piecing methods it really didn't take long to cut out the fabric 

and piece the blocks.

Nor did it really take a long time to quilt them as you go - this is a stack waiting for some quilting in the ditch...

What has been taking time is stitching all these blocks together .....to be totally honest I just haven't had the time in long enough bits to focus on it these past few weeks!   But all the blocks are now pieced together into three bigger bits now!

I just need to join them together and maybe this weekend I'll get the time to finish that process. 

Edit : and so I did just that and here's the proof!

Beautiful pattern by Mary Emmens

Fabric from Simply Solids 

Mad idea to make it double sided by me!