CL Challenge Quilt

Well I finished a CL challenge quilt over the weekend. I was inspired by the movie Coco Channel, her designs were simple, classic. This particular quilt is based on one scene in the movie, when Coco ripped apart a black dress her niece was wearing and draped a white chiffon shear (that was being used as a window treatment) over her niece's head as a scarf...stood back and said "that's classic Channel".

This is the front of the quilt, I used the CL Sprio Thingy in all of the white blocks as well as the 4 corner black blocks. In the remaing black blocks I used the Aztec Mini template. I also embelished the center of the blocks with a contrasting applique circle and a button to add to the fun.

This is what the back looks like. There is a lot going on.

I wrote down the design block codes  as I did each block and will do a blog post in the near future that will show a close up of each block and it's code and block size if anyone would like to recreate a block.

There were several blocks that were a total suprise when I was stitching them, for instance the corner blocks. When I was doing the first one it looked to me like a thistle flower so I added a stem with a wave ruler and decided to rotate the design in each of the corners to "frame" the quilt.