A DS Quilt Years in the Making

I say this is years in the making because this is my collection of Denyse Schmidt fabrics coming together into one glorious quilt.  I’ve made plenty of quilts with DS fabric before, even whole quilts with all fabric from one collection, but this one is going to combine old and new fabrics, scraps, and anything else I can find in my fabric stash.

My inspiration for this quilt hit me last Sunday.  I had just returned from a day of quilting with Denyse (more details on that in a blog post coming this weekend) and I was in major DS inspiration mode.  While I was in her studio, I picked up a bunch of fat quarters of her fabric.  The new fat quarters, along with my already large collection of DS fabric was ready to go.

The fabric I picked up

I sat down last Sunday with my graph paper to come up with something that would work well to combine all of the different prints.  But what I was sketching came out to look pretty close to an already-made quilt pattern.  Now as I’ve said before, I’m not big on following quilt patterns, but in this case it just made sense.

It’s pretty much a Basket pattern minus the basket part.  I’m not really into baskets.

Does anyone know the technical name of this block?  It’s a pretty traditional pattern for me, but I really think it works well for combining all of my different DS fabrics.  So far I’m loving my blocks.

Normally my quilts are lap quilt sized or a little larger, and I rarely make standard bed sized quilts, but I’m thinking I might make this big enough to put on my bed.  I’ve been a fan of Denyse’s fabrics for so long and have been collecting the fabrics for so long, that I think it will end up holding a special place in my heart.  I know a lot of you can understand.

So these blocks are my current obsession, in addition to my English Paper Piecing that I recently picked up.  More on that later!