Space Invaders Quilt

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I made this quilt for my then-fiancé for Christmas 2016. :heart:

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It’s not a very complicated design, just 2058 little squares …

It’s about 200cm x 170cm. I found some charts online of space invaders to cobble it together, and then chose some different tones of black, dark grey, and bright green fabrics to give it some visual interest. The quilting is just stitch in the ditch.

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great pixelated effect! i love this.

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Now that is true love. Wow.

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Oh this is fabulous! And making me think I should do something similar in a C2C crochet !! :thinking: :heart_eyes:

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Love it! :smiley:

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This is so amazing! I made one years ago, but I still remember how much work it was. Congrats!

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Great job keeping those pixels all even, it looks great! :+1:t2:

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might not be complicated, but the number of squared!!!
Great job, I do like the quilt :smiley: really well designed.

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ha! Just! Well okay, then!

Great, persistent work!

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Love this! Did you do strip sets?

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Lovely! I think I have some space invaders fabric somewhere!

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OMG! That is amazing!

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Thanks everybody :smiley:

For the grey on grey portions I did some in strips. I assembled squares about the size of the invaders, and then joined them. For the invaders I cut them all as individual squares to assemble - I probably overthought the fabric arrangement, lol. I’m not a very experienced quilter, I tend to just make it up as I go along.

Reader, I married him :heart_eyes:

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I love this pretty hard. It’s awesome! I’ve had an Space Invaders Quilt on the to make, bucket list for too long now, lol.

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Amazing! Pixel quilts are so cool and this may just be the coolest!

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This is really fun! And I can’t imagine doing stitch in the ditch if you did it around all the squares! Or if you even just did it around the green and some extra spots in the black/grey area. It’s really awesome.

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Thank you! I did the stitch in the ditch vertically in each row, so on the back it’s simple narrow-ish vertical lines. I did it on a regular domestic machine, so that was much easier than moving the fabric in different directions.

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This looks amazing and makes me want to consider making another quilt with my own charted pattern…hmmmm…:thinking:

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Goodness, talk about love. :open_mouth:

It’s really good, I can’t believe you had the patience.

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the mixture of greens definitely amp up the visual interest.
and stitching in all those ditches… WOW

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