Quilt Finish: Polka-Dot Ribbons Quilt

A test block, pattern, and preliminary idea for fabrics for this quilt.

Several years ago I was in a store and saw a china cup decorated with a pattern of line and polka-dots.  Ever since then, I have wanted to translate those designs on to a quilt top - and with this quilt I finally did that.
Back in January, when I listed some goals for 2020, I gave myself the goal of writing a few more patterns. You can see my 2020 goals post here - my original sketch for this quilt is shown there in red/green.
For this quilt, I spent some time playing around with the ideas of stripes and dots in EQ8, and came up  with something like this:

Have you ever worked up a quilt design, only to get to the sewing part and find that it really would be easier if you changed this or that? Well - that happened in this quilt. (In fact, in the end there would  be many changes...) I started with the top design, and quickly realized that the strips would either be crazy skinny, or the quilt would be really big.  Since I wanted to quilt to be throw-size, I eliminated a lot of those stripes and came up with the simplified design shown at left.

If you follow me on Instagram, you already know that I had fun using Play Craft's palette builder to choose colors, and then fabric, for this quilt. (You can also find those stories saved in my Instagram Highlights here.)  You can see the fabric I originally pulled in the top photo in this post.  You might notice tho, that some of those fabrics are missing from the next picture...and actually I also eventually removed the purple stripe (shown below) from the quilt top too.

In the end, I went with just green and yellow stripes, on a "haze" lt gray background (Kona Cotton). I loved making the polka dot blocks, and it renewed my design to make an all polka-dot quilt some day.

The purple fabric ended up on the binding and I love how it works with the other colors in the quilt.  I had this guy quilted by my local long-arm quilter using a design from Urban Elementz called Flower Child.

The back of this quilt is mostly a peach (OOP) mouse print from Lizzy House, however I wasn't able to find all that I needed online, and I ended up having to piece a strip using the peach fabrics from the quilt's front.
In all, this quilt finishes at around 67 x 72. Scroll through for more photos, and thanks for stopping by!