Cog & Wheel

Tomorrow I'll start another quilt, the Cog & Wheel quilt by Denyse Schmidt.  I picked up the pattern a while ago, but put it aside until I had a bit more time.  When I found out that it would be a class at the workroom, it seemed the perfect time to pull the pattern off the shelf. 

I've talked about how difficult deciding on a colour palette can be for me.  For the Cog & Wheel quilt, I went through no less than four different colour combinations.  It's. Just. So. Hard.

In the end, I looked to the fabulous Heather Ross for inspiration.  Her most recent line, Far Far Away 2, is nothing less than amazing, and her dusk roses is one of my favourite fabrics.  It's a lovely charcoal with gold, orange, and teal roses.

I've decided to echo the same for my own version of the quilt.  I wasn't so sure at first, but part of my indecision is that this will become a bed-sized quilt for our bedroom.  The colours are growing on me, though, which is a good thing when class starts tomorrow!

I am excited to get started.  The pattern itself is lovely, and has all of the things that I love in quilts: pieces big enough to showcase fabric prints, a great vintage feel, and clean, simple lines.  This will be my first attempt at a commercial pattern. I suspect it's deceptively more difficult than it looks: all of the pieces are just curved enough to make the quilt full of curved seams.

But I'll keep you posted on how it comes along.  I have four weeks to finish a queen-size quilt top, so I foresee some late nights in my future.