My Single Girl

Oh, how I love Denyse Schmidt's Single Girl. I've been wanting to make this quilt for ages. I literally wanted to make it before I even knew how to sew. In fact, DS quilts are what originally made me want to learn how to sew. Single Girl is everything I love about modern quilting: Bold, geometric, scrappy, yet minimalistic. I'm going to employ a phrase graphic designers love to use to describe their work: It pops.

And now I'm finally making one of my own. But like most things in my life, there's no part-way on this. I couldn't just piece together a little baby Single Girl. I had to go and make it king-size.

Well, if I'm gonna make this dramatic design that I've been admiring for so long, I might as well do it up right. Right? This puppy's going on my own bed. That means it has to be king-size. That means I have to make twenty of the Single Girl rings. Twenty.

And since I can't spend more than an hour or two a day sewing, it's been sloooowwwww going. It took me at least three weeks just to draw out and cut all the pieces. Now, for the past two months, I've been piecing the quarter-blocks. Piecing in the background feels like it's taking forever.

But it's getting there. Just five more of the outer background pieces, and it's done. I can't wait to piece together the quarter rings and see the complete top. And my thoughts have now turned to the back. A plan for that is definitely coming together in my head.