Chroma

So far in 2025 I've been going at a pace of finishing one quilt on the longarm a month. I thought that it would be no problem to continue that trend in July, but then once the summer slump finally settled in, it became really, really difficult to get anything done. Before I knew it, I realized there's just a few days until the end of July, and in that time I had to finish and bind a rather large quilt, Chroma.

Chroma's pattern name is Color Block, and it was designed by Carl Hentsch. I saw it presented on the now defunct (but still much beloved by me) Midnight Quilt Show that Craftsy produced, hosted by Angela Walters. I pieced the top in late 2018, so it's been almost 7 years. (And it's by no means my oldest unfinished quilt top.)

I generally don't like to set deadlines because I didn't want quilting to feel like a job, but at the same time, I respond really well to deadlines. So I set myself a challege to longarm the entire quilt in a week and bind it that weekend.

It took a ton of effort to get started quilting (I have serious start-itis) but once I finally started, I enjoyed this a great deal. All the solid color plays are really beautiful, and the consistent quilting I applied over the whole quilt means it's a fairly predictable quilt path. So once I finally got started, it was a pretty quick job.

I kept the quilting quite simple throughout this quilt, but my favorite part is definitely the diagonal lines I did in all the corner blocks, because parallel lines always create beautiful texture, and it connects the blocks too.

Since there's not a lot of quilting on this quilt, it doesn't look like much up close but when I step back, that's when the beauty of the quilt shines through. That expression, the sum is greater than its parts, really applies here.