violetsfarm

Quilting Nonnie = what color fabric did you purchase for your sashing?

violetsfarm

My blocks are scrappy, and I like the look of them. You will be surprised when you get more blocks completed, how they blend together.

deranged_damsel

well... for a month or so now... I have been hand sewing my sashing onto my blocks.
because somewhere along the line I decided "wouldnt it be neat to not have one single machine stitch in my quilt" :roll: I HAVE HAD BETTER IDEAS :roll:
So today I was sewing along.... and got to those those two darn basket blocks! and wouldnt you know! I sewed those handles on!!!

Im pretty proud of myself for not leaving it until very last :mrgreen:

Evie

And did a pretty darn good job of it, too, so, yes, pat yourself on the back! Looks really nice.

janRN

DD I'm so impressed! I love hand sewing, wish I could do more. Your blocks are beautiful.
Evie, did you decide on a sashing color yet?

Quilting Nonnie

I bought brown like in Laurie's quilt. Now that I've been seeing all the different colors everyone else is using, I'm re-thinking the color.

I've been doing a layout of the quilt, and mine has a lot of brown blocks and I'm not sure if the brown sashing will be okay. Of course I've already bought the brown, so that might be the deciding factor... :)

Deranged Damsel: Wow! Handsewn! Congratulations. And I haven't sewn on my basket handles yet; I'm impressed!

janRN

Whew!!! I just spent the last 3 hours laying out all my blocks in rows. I'm going to do them straight across (not on point) and did 9 across and 12 down. Oh, if you could see my house right now--chairs, tables, everything moved. This is a large project. I kept moving them around so the colors were spread out and no 2 busy blocks were together. I could have spent another 3 hours re-doing them but had to yell STOP!! After I placed some sashing strips between them it made it all "come together"--I'm so excited. It looks like a quilt, not 108 potholders. I didn't use my ugliest blocks but honest, even some I wasn't 100% happy about blend right in.
This note is just to encourage you all (yinz, if you're from Pittsburgh)--they look great when they're all together. I put them all in labeled bags so I can start sewing the rows together later this week. YAY!! (Can you tell I'm excited??)

Quilting Nonnie

Jan, that is so wonderful! I must have been so exciting to sit around and arrange your blocks. I can hardly wait.

Congrats & congrats again.

JeanieG

Woo Hoo Jan, your way ahead of me! I'm still moving at two blocks a week, and here you are all done. Plus you have them all quilted too. Wow, great work! I do have the 1st half of my quilt together and started quilting it, but our traveling and all kind of put a halt to that. I'll get back to it real soon though.

rwquilts

I just got through looking through all the pages of this thread to see what you gals are doing to finish your quilts! I must say..."they're amazing"!!!!! I am not as far along, but am taking notes as to colors and such...I don't know what I will use for sashing and such yet...still have some blocks to finish...

I'm inspired to continue! Thank you everyone!!!