Brit Quilt Swap - Pillow Fight

Once I'd received my partners name the stalking of her Flickr photostream and her 'favourites' began.


This partner has very specific likes which in some ways makes things easier but at the same time harder.  I want to create something which whilst giving the appearance of being clean and simple, when looked at a little deeper shows something a little more.


I firstly created a mosaic of possible designs for her to comment on and give me guidance - 

unfortunately that didn't work.  Next I sketched a few design ideas, still nothing!  

So I decided to jump in and make a fabric selection - I didn't want to go with white as I though it would dirty too easily so I went for Ash Grey then I picked out a Moda Grunge fabric in Aqua.  The fabrics are perfect and work very well together.

Now I needed to finalise that elusive design.  On my short list were these:-

In the end I too inspiration from something similar and drew out this

motif 1 is now drawn out and cut out and bonded onto the backing, now I've got to decided, do I do another smaller motif to bond on or do I stitch something on, and, do I do everything on the front only or add something onto the back as well. 


Visit later to see what way I go with this, if you've been following me for a while you'll know that I often just go in instinct and feel once I sit down at the sewing machine.