Help for a newbie pls!
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|hello!
I'm new to this board and to quilting!
I'm a home educating mum to four wonderful kiddos here in Wales, United Kingdom.
A while back I bought a layer cake mainly bc it was on sale. I didn't really know what I was doing and stumbled across the 10min block and then made this...
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But now I'm not sure what to do next LOL!
If I knew what the fabric was I'd buy more and carry on but I bought it 2 years' ago and really haven't got the faintest idea what it was.
Does anyone have any idea pls?
thanks in advance
I'm new to this board and to quilting!
I'm a home educating mum to four wonderful kiddos here in Wales, United Kingdom.
A while back I bought a layer cake mainly bc it was on sale. I didn't really know what I was doing and stumbled across the 10min block and then made this...
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-7wshaRbj2RM/VAc1Pty8COI/AAAAAAAAG-o/VC1-Jpdoalc/w958-h574-no/IMAG2643.jpg)
But now I'm not sure what to do next LOL!
If I knew what the fabric was I'd buy more and carry on but I bought it 2 years' ago and really haven't got the faintest idea what it was.
Does anyone have any idea pls?
thanks in advance
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Welcome! I don't have a good idea what you should do next, but it is a cute block and you did a great job with it. Hopefully someone else will come up with something for you. There are so many talented quilters on this board.
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Welcome to the board. You will find many wonderful and helpful people here. I think you top is very pretty. I don't recognize the fabric,but what you could do is take it to a fabric store and have the ladies there help you to match it to some yardage and sew a couple borders to the sides, depending on how big you want your top to be. You could just see 1 border.
I don't know what your sewing background is, but you did a great job. Hopefully I helped you a little. Gina
I don't know what your sewing background is, but you did a great job. Hopefully I helped you a little. Gina
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looks like it may be 40x40 inches or so. too big for a pillow cover. I'd add borders and maybe more blocks of some sort. You could use solid colors that go with the prints. keep adding until it's a good size you can use. or perhaps a wall hanging to remember what you did.... Cute, and good luck and welcome to the forum!!
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Welcome to the board! If there are any fabric stores around you, I would take the piece in and get a yard (meter?) of a couple fabrics in coordinating colors and add a couple borders. Make them different widths for contrast. It's got lovely soft colors and would make a nice baby quilt.
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I would make as many blocks as I could out of the original layer cake, then try to find something that coordinates with the colors to use as sashing and border and make a baby quilt. And might I add, your work looks terrific for a newbie!
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Welcome to the board! If there are any fabric stores around you, I would take the piece in and get a yard (meter?) of a couple fabrics in coordinating colors and add a couple borders. Make them different widths for contrast. It's got lovely soft colors and would make a nice baby quilt.
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That looks like Avignon by Riley Blake. There seems to be quite a bit of it available on Etsy (don't know what shipping charges would be like to the UK).
That's a lovely block you made! Welcome to the board!
That's a lovely block you made! Welcome to the board!
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