Disproportionately pleased

I guess improv quilting is dis-proportional.  And I have to say that when I started my improv background for my medallion quilt for this year's Sue Ross Challenge Quilt (SRCQ) I went all out for the improv, crazy, helter-skelter look.

Couldn't do it.  Well I could, but I didn't like it with the medallion I had pieced.  It was too crazy, too improv and all in all a bit too scary for my naturally symmetrical quilting self.  It serves me right for laughing at Sue's need to use a ruler.

So what to do?  I decided I would go for a pieced improv look.  Not controlled improv like Kim, but pieces with the improv in some of them.  This way I could use up some of my crazy attempts but get nice evenly sized blocks too.  I am dis-proportionately pleased with the result which is in the photo below.  Only five of the four inch blocks are improv, the rest a mix of different light fabrics, including the bucking broncos which are a new favourite.  (I may have to invest in some more of that fabric.)

In other sewing news, I have finished the 21st quilt I brought to class last month and also the improv meets Gwen Marston baby quilt I had just about done in class.  The first will be off to the quilter, while I will do the second myself when the Big Bernina comes back from being mended. I am  powering along with the other 21st quilt which is much simpler, but still a bit of work.  Here's a sample block.  4 made, 21 to go!  This one sure uses up the starch.

  Happy stitching.