At long last, 270 5.5″ HST later – here is the quilt top for my sweetie. I’m not quite sure how I’m going to photograph the whole top – but, I’ll wait until I’m finished the quilting to figure that out. The quilt is massive though – he asked for a king sized but, I…
Does having the fabric cut out count as a WIP (Work In Progress)? I hope so because I don’t even have the quilt laid out yet. But, I’ve been dreaming about a pixel quilt for a long time. Here are my fabrics – 20 Kona Cottons. I can’t wait! Have a good week everyone!
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oooh, i’m curious as to how this is going to look. the other day, i was scribbling with my oldest daughter, and i thought “this would make a cool looking quilt. if i did it in squares it would look pixelated.”
Does anyone else have this problem? You make a quilt as a gift for a friend or family member and then fall in love with it SO much that it is almost painful to give away? Well, this was my experience with the Huckleberry Modern Baby Quilt. Luckily I was strong and was able to…
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I love your quilt, and the whole package! You have inspired me. My daughter just announced she is pregnant, and her husband is an engineer. I was looking for something he would love also, and I think your site will give me plenty of ideas. Can you tell me if you used a pattern for the bib and burp cloth? I just love those.
Robyn
Wow. Oh wow. This is so cool on so many different levels. I love the great big circle! You have Really inspired me!
[...] yes for those of you that might ask, this is sort of an iteration of the Huckleberry Quilt. The big circle is just cut in [...]
Can I be your friend? LOL….
What an amazing gift!!!! Extremely generous of you…..I would have stopped at the quilt, but time is my enemy.
Oh, it’s so amazing. I looove all of it. It’s a wonderful gift.
LOVE!
That is just so beautiful, fantasic, love the ball idea to match the quilt and everything else!!
Seriously awesome quilt. I would love to try one like this but I wouldn’t have the first clue how. If you ever do want to do tutorials…let us know!! Your stuff is amazing! (and modern).
This quilt is amazing! Please, please, please do a tutorial – at least tell me how big it is – it is really fabulous!
Wow. I so love this quilt and all the wonderful goodies. I love the colors but especially the outer circular quilting. Amazing.
I am in love with this whole set! Beautiful job! If you ever have the urge to post a tutorial (for this or any of your other pieces), I would happily jump on that train. 
What a beautiful quilt and a fabulous keepsake gift! I should say gifts! All of them are wonderful.
Love the topstitching! Fierce! Do you do your own topstitching? If so, what kind of machine do you use?
Your baby quilt is wonderful. I like the back as much as the front. The bib, the ball, the card, just too sweet.
Wowsers! I love this fabric, the quilt, the ball, the card, everything!!! Amazing.
WOW! What an amazing gift and an outstanding design! Superb!
I have loved this from the moment I saw it. Your love and time and heart will go with the quilt to the baby and the mama and daddy, and all will be blessed for many, many years.
No surprise, you’ve inspired many…including me, but Jack will be in high school before I get the courage to try something like this! It’s awesome.
Adorable! I need to make one right now! I mean, like, immediately! Oh, you are so so creative. I wish Missouri were closer to your guild! I’m glad to see what you’ve been up to.
Oh wow – that is an incredible set! I noticed the quilt on Flickr – I love how the concentric circles look like a Japanese rock garden.
Wait – you used the six minute circle method on this?!
I mean, I LOVE this quilt and need to make one. But that’s an awful big circle!
I’m in awe!
The quilt is stunning. The entire gift? What a lucky family!!!
REALLY stinkin’ gorgeous baby gift!!! LOVE LOVE LOVE all the fabulous little touches you added! That is one lucky baby & momma to receive that basket! 
L- I LOVE IT! This is one of my favorites of your quilts as well. And the whole baby gift set turned out awesome. Loved the bib…
Wow! This is awesome! I love the design and the quilting is amazing!
I too, suffer from separation anxiety–perhaps there is a support group somewhere? If at least there are visitations it may help to assuage the sorrow of such sweet partings.( Hey I’m a chemist forgive me my poor mangled quotations.) Love the whole ensemble Latifah.
This is stunning. I love your designs – such a great use of colour, pattern, and calm space. I always love it when I see on my google reader that your blog has another post – always wondering what you have up your sleeeve next. Super!
The quilt is adorable! I love everything about it..the colors, the fabrics,and the quilting. I love that you added things that would have meaning to the parents. THEN..you add the darling burp cloths(let’s hope Jack is not a spitter?)and ball. TOO cute!
I’d have trouble letting these go too.
VERY well done!
Oh my goodness! I adore this quilt! It is amazing! That is one lucky baby!
Wow, it is gorgeous. I love the design and I LOVE the colorful fabrics. You have a wonderful eye for modern design and colors.
Amazing quilt and baby gift set! You definitely needed strength to give those cute things away!
WHAAAT? this quilt is by far the best i have ever seen. the design , the colors just everything…I am in awe over this and I would not have been able to give it away either… SNiff Sniff!
You are not alone! I often love the quilts so much I don’t want to give them away. There was one in particular that I kept dragging around the house and snuggling with for a few days before giving it away!
I simply adore your work, it consistently and constantly blows me away. Huckleberry is no different, I am awestruck, wow!!
I think this is one of my favorites of your baby quilts!! Love love love it!
this is such an unbelievably incredible gift.
I am so in awe!
Thanks for asking the question about how it was pieced. I was wondering if that was the method you used. Great finish, I can see how it was hard to give away!
This is gorgeous! Thanks for sharing the link on how to sew the circles – I was really curious!
You put so much of yourself in this quilt. That’s probably part of the reason it is so tough to part with. That and its incredible!
amazing. really. from the quilt, to the so-called “wonky” ball, to the packaging – it’s perfect!
I’m drooling.
I don’t know how you found the strength. I don’t blame you, it’s all gorgeous.
So, I’m still exploring what I call Measured Improv. If you’ve read some of my earlier blog entries, you will remember that this is what I termed my approach to Improvisational Piecing. I now introduce you to “Up In the Air”, my most current exploration: The inspiration for this quilt was a block created by…
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absolutely fabulous quilt…
I love this quilt. It reminds me of rulers, pencils, and sketches laid out on a drafting table. I think “engineer” when I see it. And at the same time, the green on green makes it soft and inviting. I want to curl up in it. Beautiful. I can really relate to how hard it is to plan and implement something so that it all looks accidental. Great piece of art!
Very nice! It reminds me of abstract drawing with tape.
Congratulations.
This is so awesome! I love this!
It is fascinating to read about other people’s struggles with improv. I struggle with precision and planned out pieces! Your eye is incredible, regardless of the process.
I have loved all your quilts in this series and this one is no exception. it makes me swoon
Unbelievably fabulous and amazing and stunning and different – I hopped over here from flickr and really have to add you into my bloglist because your things never cease to amaze me – you seem to work completely differently from the rest of us – are you an artist by training?
Beautiful! I love those colors, and the composition is fantastic!!
I love it!
I think for me, improv goes against my frugal nature (scottish roots!) because if something needs to get a chunk trimmed off to make it fit I would have a hard time doing it. But I will try something like this one day, I really love the way it turned out, and the name is perfect.
I love this! Your design shows such restraint. The green tone-on-tone work is really nice… this quilt really inspires me to dig into my stash of solids!
Thanks for the comment! I too am a planner by nature and Improv has been very difficult for me. You should try it though – it’s been quite the experience. It’s nothing like stretching yourself in a direction quite different from the norm.
I’m glad you like it though. I’m always a little hesitant to share when I make things so different from everything that’s out there!
I have a lot of trouble just making wonky blocks. I know that improvisationaly piecing would be very challenging and tedious to me, too. I’m a planner, by nature.
I think this is SO fantastic, though. I love it. At first, I thought “minimalist” but I looked again and saw that it is very complex in areas. The colors you chose are just great.
Before I even finished The Big Log in the original colors of Black and White, I started to think about what variations could be made to make the look and feel of the quilt completely different. Though I love black and white quilts for babies I thought that in this case the Black and White…
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this is seriously awesome!
“Measured Improv”…love it and love your work.
This is really great. I love the style and the freedom of this quilt. Would you ever consider taking us through a couple steps of how you create the blocks? Is it all random… where do you start? I love it anyway. Would love to be able to give it a try. Also, how much fabric do you buy for a project like this. I don’t usually keep much solids on hand.
Ohhhh, really what a fabulous quilt, love the variation from the earlier white and black! Beautiful!
cool quilt! Love how there is that one red piece on the binding, really draws the eye.
Thanks Latifah for the reply, which with your original script is actually quite clear.. the fog is at this end I think!
I am all for the playful side not being excluded and am often pleased to hear when my quilts are flipped over as the recipient prefers the knitting cats on the back now! I still look for a patterened back ..hides more mistakes. I do like your quilting showing on on the reverse tho giving a reflection of the design on the front. Will giv it a try .. sometime!
freda, in soggy Edinburgh
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So beautiful, Latifah! I love the lavender.
Freda – thanks for the comments! I’m so glad you came from the 6600 Yahoo group – I love that group! I guess I should’ve been clearer in my comment about black and white. I am actually a big proponent of using black and white in baby quilts. Though not always with white but, I use black in about 75 percent of my baby quilts. I too have heard about the research about colors and babies and their early recognition of the contrast of black and white. What I meant about stark was that with this pattern the black and white seemed to be mature and not ‘baby-ish’ at all. Hope that explains it better!
Yummy – what an origonal style.. I was led here by the 6600group..bless …source of great e adventures. Interesting comment tho re black and white being too stark for a baby, my new grandson was given pressies by other new mums-in-the-know of op-art style mobiles in black white and red..which he zoomed in on ..at about three to four weeks! Apparently psychologists have found out that these are the first colours wee ones respond to!!
My own reaction was the same of ..oh yeh till I saw it .
Just a thought to share! Maybe in baby shapes of stars and moons??
Cheers from Edinburgh
Oh, sorry. I skipped the words and went straight for the full-screen sized eye candy. Now I see that you’ve thoughtfully listed all the colors you used. You’re awesome. And I dig Kona Coral.
I love it! Especially the little piece of the backing fabric – what color is that? I also especially love the photos – the houses, the pier? Awesomeness. Great work – as usual, Quilt Engineer! I think the block on the back looks like it might spell Latifah!
Cheerful is the perfect description! Great work. Can’t wait to read more from you!
Again, I really love this. Such great inspiration!
It’s a beautiful, fun baby quilt. . I’m curious, is your name spelled out in your label on the back? If so, that’s really cool!
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Yes, yellow is definitely not a color that I work with often – or probably ever. I’ll write one day why I made this yellow and blue quilt. . . But, I’m so glad that I was pushed to make this! It is sometimes gratifying to work outside of your norm!
I love your quilts. The whole cloth quilt is beautiful. The colors in this yellow quilt are exquisite.
Those strings are wonderful. I just made a Bonnie Hunter quilt that had a string block. Now I covet your pile of strings! I hope you use them to make something else equally as wonderful!
Pam
Absolutely gorgeous! I’m glad it’s not just two fabrics, but how you’ve used so many different shades of the two colors. You may push me into trying yellow. . .
WOW! If I had socks on, they’d be knocked off right now! I love so much about this – the movement, the dimension, the playfulness… but most of all I love how you’ve made the solids come to life and KA POWIE ZOWIE!
wow! that quilt is reeeeally gorgeous!
love the assembly!
Beautiful! I love the sense of movement in this.
What a great assembly of HST. I like the colors with the various hues – Wonderful job!
There is a way to do binding with one color on one side and another on the other side. I don’t recall the size strips you need. If I find the directions, I’ll post a link here or on twitter.
Oh Lauren! Thanks so much for saying that! Can’t wait until Sew Modern is open!
Sarah – I did think of a blue binding and I think it would be gorgeous. But, my boyfriend asked for two things – a yellow quilt and and all white quilt. Long stories behind why he wanted both but, I figured I’d kill two birds with one stone. If I have a Kona Snow backing and binding then he’ll have an all white quilt on the back!
There is a method to the madness! 
Vicki, Chris, and Debbie – thanks so much for the comments!
Gorgeous! So vibrant and beautiful. Have you thought about a blue binding?
Oh, Latifah, I’m exhausted from gasping at the beauty an ingenuity of your quilts. You just take my breath away…and Inspire!
That quilt is going to be fabulous!
Wow! That is stunning. I love the way you used so many shades of the same colors. It has so much depth.
This quilt is stunning! The blues look so rich against the yellows. I also love the scrappy yet limited color range. Beautiful!