Ripple quilt

I'm finally ready to stamp the Ripple quilt "finished."

It began in the spring when Robert Kaufman Fabrics distributed solids charm packs to the quilt guild and challenged us to make quilts using only solids. About the same time Accuquilt sent a fabric cutter to try out. As it turns out, working together solids from all (dusty) shades of the rainbow, and block-based quilt design are both outside my comfort zone, so I decided to wrap it up into one challenge.

I cut a quarter circle and a corner from each charm (5") square, then an equal number from various off-white solids. I wrote a tutorial for assembling the drunkard's path blocks in Die Cut Drunk and described how I arranged the blocks in Drunken Progress.

The quilting uses several different colors, with all of the concentric circles around any drop in the same color. The colors are light blue, light ochre, moss green, deep red, and white.

The drops overlap in different amounts. Some drops have more rings than others. Some of the quilted drops are set completely in the white background, with no drunkard's path blocks.

I quilted the circles using the walking foot. I hadn't really thought through the amount of turning required to quilt all these circles on my little machine. In the future I wouldn't try this on anything as big as this 61" x 69" quilt.

The back is Kona Snow with a stripe of natural Kaufman Chambray and a pieced circle.

the label is embroidered at the center on one of the quilting drops. I'm so happy with how the quilting turned out, both front and back.

UPDATE: If you're interested in making a drunkard's path quilt, Kate and Kristie are hosting a quilt along over at Needle and Spatula and OCD.