Now to be really honest these scallops are terrible, I jumped in without thought and it shows. It was my fabulous followers that pulled me out of the creative hole I was in and got me to see the whole picture for what it was. It was a true creative process which I documented on Instagram over the past few weeks. Long story made very short because I’m dying to get to the good stuff but I made them, I hated them, I cried, I hid the quilt, I pulled it out and forced myself to push through the photos anyway. Turns out if you are going to attempt this then you need to pay attention to those things, they are a big deal to the finish lol. You guys there are so hard! SO HARD! I made every rookie mistake possible too – made the scallops too small, didn’t cut the binding on the bias, assumed I could just wing it. I knew in my heart scallop borders would look amazing with this fabric collection so I set about to add sashing and get them made. Somewhere along the way I, in my infinite wisdom decided I wanted to get fancy. It was supposed to be a quick turnaround to release. I redrafted it to send to testers, made the quilt top, blogged and sent everything off to testers. ![]() When Gingham Farm by Riley Blake arrived I knew immediately this was the range I wanted to work with to update the pattern. Kaleidoscope was first on my list because I wanted to play with the idea of a low volume background rather than just a solid (although lets be honest it looks just as great this way too!). Over the past 6 months I have been working on the idea of updating those initial patterns to offer more size options and add more detailed diagrams. The original Kaleidoscope quilt made using Tilda Lemon Tree
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