Quilters' Playcation Adventure Sewalong 2024 - Week 23 Update

Blah, blah, blah... the best laid plans. Can you spot where I had to get pretty creative here?

Now usually, when doing improv work, I strongly suggest waiting until you have many blocks done until you decide on finished block size and layout. It's not a hard and fast rule, though, so I felt pretty comfortable ignoring my own advice with this year's Adventure Sewalong.

Then I made a block too small and didn't want to remake it. So I added that red strip. All good, all good, I can work with pops of colour. In fact, let's run with that and add a secondary rainbow with a pop of colour in each row. 

Improvising solutions! Also a crucial part of improv quilting.

Then, as I approached halfway through the year I realized that I was not going to have enough of the background fabric. Of course it is a long out of print fabric and I can't get anymore. Of course. So I sketched and mathed and daydreamed until I came up with yet another improvised solution.

Those pops of color are going to get more and more as we work down the quilt. In each row I will substitute some of the background I started with for the colour of each row. Each row will have more and more of the color and less and less of the background. Is it going to be the quilt I expected when I started? Nope! But that is the true nature of improv - starting without knowing where you are going to end up.