Bartlett & Craft

Once I had finished the living room, I fell into a little bit of rut in terms of inspiration for the rest of the house. I decided to create a mood board for the house, which is something I had never down before.   I thought it would bring me some clarity about what I have going on in the house already and where I might like to focus my attention next. This isn't complete, but it is clarifying for me in terms of what colors are there, what colors to stay away from and which ones to incorporate. Also, at this point, I had ordered from fabric in the top right area from Rifle Paper Co and made plans to make curtains for the front window. There were red curtains and I just don't do red anywhere in my design decisions.  I think I have painted one surface red ever, and that was eventually changed to navy blue. So I knew the red had to go. 

I had time today to start assembling my center quilt block (for you newbies, like me, a quilt block is basically the basic pattern on a quilt that is repeated.  For this quilt, it is my center design that will help communicate my design aesthetic, colors, etc to the next person in line to add to my quilt). I decided to do something a bit challenging and something that reflected who I am.  Luckily I was able to find some super cute fabric at JoAnn Fabrics and I did some searching online to find a pattern that I liked.  I landed on the Scandinavian Star block - getting back to my roots!  (pictured below) I had chosen four different fabrics for my quilt block, though, so I had to improvise a tad, which I liked...more of an adventure :) I followed some of the directions from  http://www.aquiltinglife.com/2014/07/scandinavian.html  for this block.  While it was helpful to get an idea of what pieces I needed, I needed a little extra help actually as...

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