Bayside Test
Another fabulous Suzy Quilts pattern just dropped today! Bayside is a simple but funky quilt that, if you aren't paying attention, will probably fry your brain. Especially if you are using prints.
Notice, if you will, that I used all solids. This is most definitely a beginner-friendly quilt, but it is not a distracted-quilter- or two-glasses-of-wine-quilter-friendly quilt.
This quilt makes prodigious use of templates. Triangle templates. And I don't know about you, but my brain is TERRIBLE with triangles. This is why I didn't use prints- if you use prints, not only do you have to keep several sizes of templates straight AND switch back and forth between positive- and negative-space thinking, you have to make sure that you reverse your templates when appropriate so that your mirrored shapes match up. Not for the faint-hearted, although most seem to have handled it anyway. Suzy has a good tutorial at the link in my first paragraph, and if you're nervous about cutting in, watch that first!
All that forewarning aside- this is is a super fun and super fast make. Check out the hashtag for all of the crazy color combos! The other fun thing about it, at least for the baby size that I made, is that you don't use half of the strips you cut for each color, so you can make a scrappy improv back! I love how the quilting shows up a little off-kilter on the stripes above, and the leftover HRTs in the upper right add just a bit of edge. I had envisioned this as a girly Christmas quilt, but I think it mostly comes out as a modern girly quilt, which is fine by me.
You can buy the pattern here and make your own by this weekend, or if you're dying to get your hands on this one, snag it in my shop!
