Quilt layout for non-matching summer blocks?
02-16-2019, 08:29 PM
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Here are some of the Quilter’s who made blocks Armylady,suzisew, judith1005, graceful Ann, Kimberly Texastam, nzquilters, redgarnet. Ljdugas. These were some of the folks from the summer swap. If I missed yours please let me know, those little name tags tend to escape. There were two blocks from one of the booms too. I if I get motivated I’ll enter it in the county fair this summer under group quilt.
02-17-2019, 09:00 AM
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02-17-2019, 09:01 AM
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[ATTACH=CONFIG]608600[/ATTACH]Thank you for all the suggestions. They sparked me to float the blocks and they look much better that way. Gave me lots of inspiration and ideas. I would’ve liked to use a soft orange sashing but what I had in my stash was the soft yellow.
It was really helpful to have a big design wall. My design wall is just some batting pinned to the wall with push pins. I put the blocks up and figured out what size sashing was needed as I went. I didn’t try to figure it out beforehand and was ok with sashing being different sizes. This made for an interesting process. At the end I was adding sashing to the top middle of the quilt.
I added several little blocks. I was going to do them in solid colors to calm it down. Then I decided that was a lost cause, so for many of them I used pattern fabrics that were special to me. I made the beach bums block to fill out the blank spot I came up with. You might have seen this pattern before, it has 5 beach buddies. I reduced the pattern by 50 % and only used three beach ladies.
Well I’m glad the top is done. I’m thinking about just binding it with the soft yellow. What do you think? I won’t get to the quilting for several months
Quilt top isn’t ironed. I’m never good taking square pictures and reducing the size but here it is.
It was really helpful to have a big design wall. My design wall is just some batting pinned to the wall with push pins. I put the blocks up and figured out what size sashing was needed as I went. I didn’t try to figure it out beforehand and was ok with sashing being different sizes. This made for an interesting process. At the end I was adding sashing to the top middle of the quilt.
I added several little blocks. I was going to do them in solid colors to calm it down. Then I decided that was a lost cause, so for many of them I used pattern fabrics that were special to me. I made the beach bums block to fill out the blank spot I came up with. You might have seen this pattern before, it has 5 beach buddies. I reduced the pattern by 50 % and only used three beach ladies.
Well I’m glad the top is done. I’m thinking about just binding it with the soft yellow. What do you think? I won’t get to the quilting for several months
Quilt top isn’t ironed. I’m never good taking square pictures and reducing the size but here it is.
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