After several years of needing a new mattress, we finally got one last week. In the process, we decided to go from a queen size to a king bed. I only have one quilt that “fits” our new king bed (and it’s getting cooler, so it’s definitely the right time to pull it out and put it on the bed).
So I need to have another bed quilt for spring/summer. And I’ve decided on Laundry Basket Quilts’ Babcia Square. I’ll have to resize it, though, to fit our bed, because the pattern is only about 63 x 65 inches.
My first thought was, well, I’ll just have to make a lot more blocks. But then I had another thought. I could make the blocks a little larger instead. The original block is close to my favorite size, but honestly, I think it would work with the larger size that I’ve worked out. And I would make just a few more blocks this way, instead of 2.5 times the number of blocks. That should make it go together a little more quickly as well, though I don’t expect to make it in a weekend, ha!
I ordered some background fabric, because even though I have quite a lot of background fabric now, this design calls for you to use all of the same background, and I don’t have as much as I would need for either variation at a king size.
Meanwhile, I made a couple of test blocks, one in each size, to get a feel for how they would look on the bed. And as much as the pieces of the smaller, original block tend to be my favorite size to work with, I really think I like how the larger one looks. I have a storage container of Laundry Basket Quilt fabrics that I’ve collected over the past several years, and I plan to use them for this quilt.
Perhaps this was the motivation I needed to get my quilt mojo back…