Letter P

This year’s challenge with my Fifteen by Fifteen group is going to be letters. The first one was Letter S . After making that, I already had a clear idea about how I will make other letters, and I hurried to start my next quilt- Letter P.

I started with the drawing that gave me only a wage idea about proportions and placements of the design elements, that will go from one quilt to another:

Later I didn’t follow it through, moving diamond shapes and changing the letter itself.

The same three diamonds with stronger color as a design element will repeat in all quilts. The same fabric and hand stitching for the letter itself. I want every letter at some point to reach the edge of the quilt. When all quilts are finished and put together, the letters will make their own design. When I move quilts around, this design will change.

This time I decided to go with red, yellow and orange colors, adding some blue and green that were in Letter S quilt:

I made a paper template for a letter:

Then I started building a background:

I didn’t like green triangles in upper left corner, they didn’t have enough contrast. It looks better now:

Here came the time to start sewing. When I moved to the sewing machine, I had a helper (I always do):

I started by inserting letter P:

I first hand stitched the letter and the densely quilted the background:

Look who is lurking in the shadows!

After finishing quilting, I faced the quilt the same way like I am going to face all 6 of them. Here is the final result:

And a small gallery of detail images:

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And finally I put two quilts next t each other:

I look forward to making Letter C quilt now.