A Floral Crush Serve Quilt top

Last week I had the delightful opportunity to teach a class at a favorite Utah quilt shop.  I love teaching, and I really enjoy teaching how to trim half rectangle triangles without a special ruler.  That’s exactly what we did in class, with students working on various versions of my Serve Quilt.  Energized by their projects, I decided to sew together my sample blocks when I arrived home.  Now I have a “floral crush” Serve quilt top.

Some of my students opted to make the Rainbow version of Serve, and others were making the Show Up 48″ version.  All of them were beautiful!  I started mine some time ago for class sample blocks.  I used a Rifle Paper Co floral print with the Kona solid named Crush, which was a color of the year in 2023.  Thus my name for it, a “floral crush” Serve quilt top.  This one is the large, 72″ version.

Kona Crush is a gorgeous, saturated bright that looks lovely next to the floral.  Because of that, I chose a bright Dutch blue floral (a Liberty cotton print) and a deeper rich green solid (Art Gallery Pure Solids in eucalyptus) for my smaller stars.  The contrast is lovely and it adds a dark color to the quilt, which enhances its color value.

My background is another Rifle Paper print a gold star print from their Christmas collections.  I hope it will add a pretty sheen to the quilt.

While sewing this quilt top together, I found myself thinking of other designs for the half rectangle triangle quilt block.  If you could make a quilt with this block, what sort would you choose?  I love the way one quilt, or one quilt block, can inspire more creative exploration!