Bento

My friend, A Left-Handed Quilter,  is starting a new project. It is a Bento Box quilt made with 2 1/2" strips. She is using a collection called "Devon County." 
We decided that I would make the same pattern, but my quilt top will be in solids.  I am using a kit that I bought that was designed to make a bargello quilt.  (It was on sale and I bought a second one after making the bargello quilt.)  No-one says you "have to use the pattern that came with it."

So I took a photo of the strips before I sorted them.

The idea was to sort lights and darks.  So using a handy feature on my phone's camera app, I removed the color and left it in gray scale.

That helped some.  I used it as a basis for pairing the strips to make the blocks.  Honestly there are more mid-tones in this so I some of my darks are mid-tone and so are some of my lights.

While I was doing this, I had a visual migraine or something like it. Normally those just are really annoying.  But this is sinus allergy season.  And I was already prone to a headache. This kicked it up a notch.  I had to go to bed for a while after taking allergy and headache meds.

When I got up, I sewed this (less than perfect) block.

The camera's depiction of the colors is less than perfect also.  But they are the darkest purple and the lightest green from the first photo - where the colors are pretty accurate.

I think this will be a fun quilt top to make.  We are both doing 30 blocks in a 5x6 layout for a 60" by 72" quilt top.  I will have extra strips leftover that I may or may not use for binding.

The pdf tutorial for the Bento Box quilt is here and it is free at this time.

Until Next Time,  

Stay Creative 

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