This is beautiful! I agree that the muted background really highlights the beautiful bits of lavender-purple and gold. These are going to be some very happy, lucky recipients!

Lovely, lovely, lovely. I MUST try sashing. In fact I'm going to go right home now and try it.

Wow... that looks great! Beautiful... the orange really makes it pop.

It definitely works

WOW!!!

Gorgeous. Works SO WELL!!!

Sorry, I don`t like it too much, might be the colour accuracy on my mabook, but it doesn't touch me. To me it looks like real blue in the backround.
What is sashing btw.?

Liebe Grüße

Sibylle

This is a great lesson in colourwork. The theoretical discussion leaves me a bit dry, but this is real life choices in action. Quilting may not be difficult, but this creating is really hard work.

I really like the way this came out! I probably would have gone with a purple shade... and then been unhappy with it without knowing why.

You did great!

I am not even a purple person, and I would be ABSOLUTELY THRILLED to have this quilt decorating my bed. It looks fantastic!!

Perfect

After trying to make a mitered-square afghan with primarily purple & complementary colors, I can empathize about the difficulties of purple! It was the color of the college she was attending, so I was stuck...but it was tough!

Your quilt top looks amazing!

Sorry to hear that it doesn't speak to you Sybille. It is much nicer in person. I wish I had a spot in the house where I had good lighting and enough room to lay it out. I'd take it outside for the photo, but there's two feet of snow everywhere, so that's no good either. ;0) And sashing is the name for all the strips around and between the blocks that separate and frame them. Don't know what it is in German, but it's the same word we use for the framework in a window, holding the separate panes together.

this turned out great.... i am surprised at the color combination but it looks wonderful i bet it even looks better in the full sunlight.

Yes, Laura, purple is tricky! I hadn't realized how hard it would be to find a good color to set the blocks. I never would have guessed that I'd end up with a blue and even now when I think of it, it seems odd, but when I see it all spread out, I think it's ended up lovely. I so wanted to find another purple, but every time I tried one, uuuggggh, it was soooo purple it was like a joke! I can't imagine how hard primary purple must have been. Too much of that and it's got to be like Barney or something! ;0)

It is gorgeous! Not being much of a purple person, but knowing several, it turned out great. If you ever make another purple quilt, a nice green might work, but then teal is a blue-green. At any rate, great job!

A real winner! Be sure to take lots of pictures -- maybe a framed, good-sized picture should hang somewhere in your house. It's art, after all.

I really like the almost stained glass quality of the fabrics. It's not really reading purple on my macbook either, I'm getting a lot of pink/golden yellow. It is truly lovely though.

I think it's stunning! :)

That looks so awesome! And I really like the placement of the orange squares as well.

Great job! Funny thing, though. That teal in the picture doesn't look like teal at all. It looks like... purple. It works really well.

Too funny, Shanon: "it looks like... purple". Love it!

This blue is a weird animal, it's one of those colors that won't quite settle down and just be one color. I think that helps it recede a little into the background and keep the quilt from become just a blue quilt with purpley blocks.

You're right Alison. There is such a think as too much purple (unlike red, of course, of which there is never enough - tee hee.) Your greyish-blue background lets the purple be the star. I'd love to see it in person.

I agree with Shannon - it looks like a lovely grayed purple (which I like better than garish bright purples anyway). Love it.

I think it's beautiful!

Love it! The colors just pop.

Beautiful Alison. I've been wearing the hat and get compliments on it. Thanks again!

That is absolutely GORGEOUS, Alison - and I'm a purple person!
XOXOX
Maria in NY

It is funny how putting that finish touch, be it border or sashing, can not only make/break the quilt, but surprise you too! I have replaced a border fabric purchased with the original fabrics, because at that point, it wasn't right any longer. I'm sure your recipients will be delighted.

I really like it! I love how the dark square in the four-patch sings. (full disclosure: I am a purple person. But blue purple, not red purple.) I suspect that like red, purple is hard to photograph.

I have to agree with Sibylle - not purple enough. And there is never such a thing as too much purple! I should mention that I've loved purple hard since the age of 2, which might explain my extreme views.

Well THIS purple person loves it. It looks beautiful. And the batiks are a good call. Keeps the purples looking lush and exotic and not so..."purple."

Beautiful. If for some reason they're not head over heels for this, send it my way. Just lovely. I'm not even a "purple" person.

I like it but I was wondering if you had tried a green, as I could see that working.

WOW. I told you that I'm a purple person and don't like the fabrics... but I LOVE THE QUILT. It's incredible. It's really, really beautiful. And you are a genius, for seeing that potential. Although maybe it's more of a comment on me than on you. So - I take it back. It's fantastic. Sorry for doubting you.

So pretty!

That came out really nicely and boy is it huge!

If I had been looking for a color, I would have probably picked out a dove grey or greyish lilac color. They probably wouldn't have worked as well as the tealish blue!

dancing and sparkling are just the right words to describe how those splashes of pale and dark and bright colors look. Lovely.

It does look good and the details of the fabrics!

I think it's BEAUTIFUL!!! My favorite color is pink. To me, purple is an extension or included in the pink family. I agree with others who said your quilt is a true lesson in color theory.

Awesome!

Wait a minute. It seems like just yesterday you were asking our opinions about colors... and you're already showing us a gorgeous finished quilt? Wow! You're amazing. The quilt is stunning. I love the pattern and the colors.

Too funny, I've heard that different computers can show colors differently, and from reading the other comments, I guess it's true. I see teal on my screeen. Man, it must be a bear to buy yarn online if you have a Mac!
I'm not a purple person at all, but your final result still appeals to me! Wonderful job!

Marvelous! Great job!