Octopus patchwork

Texte en français en bas de la page I just found the  blogger's quilt festival and I am amazed by all the beautiful quilts on display! As a beginner quilter, there is only on quilt I really want to show share at the festival. It is the quilt that gave its name to my blog, the octopus. I designed the octopus quilt, out of HST and 4 patches for my 5 year old nefew, who became a big brother. He is fascinated by the octopus at the aquarium and has gifted me with a drawing of it for Christmas That is how I decided to design an octopus quilt for him . There are more pictures of the finished quilt here and more on the design and process here . Thank you for visiting! Marie Je viens de trouver le festival des bloggers et je suis ravie de voir tous ces magnifiques patchworks! En tant que patchworkeuse débutante, il n'y a qu'un de mes patchworks que j'ai vraiment envie d'y exposer. C'est celui qui a donné son nom à mon blog, la pieuvre. Je l...

Texte en français en bas de la page It is now quite some time I want to tell you about the quilt I am working on. I already alluded to it as "The university quilt" for my daughter. I have now renamed it and I am calling it "les cerf-volants de Maastchricht" or "Maastricht's flying kites". I planned this quilt for my daugter's university room. After discussing with her about the importance of colours (more on the planning here ), she choose orange as the main colour and blue for the background. Then I showed her several patterns and ideas I had found on the internet. She selected " Halphazard " by Liz from Savor Every Stitch. It is all HST's so I felt confident. The pattern is really great : you can select your main colour(s) and background colour(s), the size and number of the blocks and the percentage of small vs large blocks. And the, magically, the computer generates your unique pattern. and you can continue until you are ...