Tone It Down Quilt

 Months ago in the

February 2014 Edition of American Patchwork and Quilting

I saw Lissa Alexander's (Moda Lissa)

Tone It Down Quilt pattern 

and knew I wanted to make it.

And then when I saw various versions and fabric combinations

contributed by 10 top designers

for a Quilt Along  

I knew I had to play right away, too!

I started collecting fat quarters of 

Low Volume and Text Prints for backgrounds

to make a real scrappy look.

I'm so happy with the result :)

My

Tone It  Down Quilt

is now finished !

 As you can see,

each  block is quite scrappy.

I followed Lissa's original color pallet of using

aqua, orange, green, yellow and navy 

with red as the predominant for the chains

 The 15 inch blocks were fun to make,

 and actually were much easier

than the over all quilt appears.

Lissa gives good instructions in the magazine.

 It was fun to mix the colors up a bit.

20 blocks total

Add in 9-Patch Corner Stones along with sashings 

and the final quilt measures a large

75 1/2" X 93 1/2"

(Twin size with an 18 inch drop)

Now, it's off to the quilter :)