Texas Two-Step: Purple on Point

Peacemakers

For over ten years I have met with a small quilt group on Friday afternoons.  Each year we work together to make one quilt for the Church auction.  This was our quilt for 2007. 

All of the quilts in my book Simple Strategies for Scrap Quilts start with 5 1/2" x 20" strips of fabric (approximately one third of a fat quarter).  For this quilt we each bought fat quarters of Civil War or other grayed prints. We cut all of our fat quarters into three strips.  One strip was donated to the group project; we kept one strip and then traded the remaining strip. 

This quilt is an example of what I call related

fabrics (civil war) paired with a common background (beige print).   When choosing the fabrics be sure you have contrast between the background and the prints.

After the blocks for this quilt were made and put on the design wall in a straight set, they seemed boring.  Putting the blocks on point helped but it was the addition of the purple borders that brought the quilt to life.  Mary Ellen Hopkins says purple goes with everything.  I have found this to be true.