lfstamper

What a gorgeous gift!

twinkie

Your colors on this one are amazing. Keep up the good work.

blahel

Wow just love your colour choices.

caspharm

That is beautiful.

ro

absolutely drop dead gorgeous I'm sure they will love it.

ro

was it a kit. is it batiks. how did you put the colors together so perfectly. just great!

Boston1954

That is striking! I LOVE the colors you picked. They are going to enjoy that for many years.

joyce888

It's going to be gorgeous!

ThreadCatcher

It wasn't a kit, all the colors were decided before I even went into my LQS. Once I got there I went straight to the batiks and pulled as many as I could that fit within the color scheme I had decided. Once they were layer out how they should be I started pulling in other fabrics to fill it in where it needed to be filled in. We left the bolts on the color table for about a half hour while I chatted elsewhere and did some other shopping. I would go back to them every so often to make sure I really liked how everything flowed. Then I tried to make sure there were no patterns that popped out drastically since I wanted the quilt to read as solids further away, while the intricacies were seen under closer inspection.

While it is a bear putting together with all the pinning, I am satisfied I made the right choices in fabrics. I also think I figured out what the backing fabric should be. Since I will have to piece the backing I am using 2.5 inch squares to make blocks that will be used on the back, all of them are from the front of the quilt. So in essence it will be a quilt within a quilt.

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ThreadCatcher

Well the second quarter of the quilt is on the design board ready to get sewn together after I finish the last couple rows on the first quarter. Well almost the 2nd quarter, I still have 3 more columns to add...oops, darn Nyquil.