I don't make a purple quilt very often. I use purple in my quilts, but decided to make it the focus of this alphabet.
Alyce Blyth has a free quilt-along on her blog Blossom Heart Quilts from 2013, Easy as ABC.
https://www.blossomheartquilts.com/easy-as-abc-qal/
It has delightful chunky modern looking letters for which I used eggplant-range purple batiks on a subtle horizontal washed greyed lavender ground.
I pretty much stuck to her letters with a few alterations and construction changes.
I did re-scale letters from a 2 inch (2 1/2 inch cut) grid to a 1 1/2 inches (2 inch cut) grid.
I kept the frames cut at her 1 1/2 inches.
With this variation, my letters finish 4 1/2 by 6 inches, finish 7 1/2 by 9 with the background, and my final framed blocks finish 9 1/2 by 11 inches.
The background frames are cut 2 by 6 1/2 inches for sides and 2 by 8" for the top and bottom.
The purple frames are cut 1 1/2 by 9 1/2 inches for the sides and 1 1/2 by 10 for the top and bottom.
This little chart helped me stay on track
1 square 1 1/2" finished 2" cut
2 squares 3" finished 3 1/2" cut
3 squares 4 1/2" finished 5" cut
4 squares 6" finished 6 1/2" cut
Examples--something 1 by 3 squares was cut 2 by 5"; 2 by 2 was cut 3 1/2 square
I am struggling a bit with the X and may have to resort to paper piecing--a technique I greatly dislike. There is a right brain/left brain thing with it that makes me unhappy to work with it.
BUT, what a great pattern! I am mulling ideas for how to put together and border it.
