Monday (again)!

[rosebee]

It was a good & productive weekend.

Saturday was spent being lazy, going to the Saturday Market around 2:30pm, then being lazy & playing video games. :)

Sunday was spent working on my quilt. :D I got the rest of the blocks cut out and sewn up. Then I also managed to get all my blocks arranged into a decent-looking pattern.


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Then once I was sure I liked the layout, sewed the rows together (the picture is from befoer this step). The thing that took the longest, besides cutting & sewing the new blocks, was cutting all the rest of the blocks down to the same size!

Now I can take my rows, and go to the fabric store and buy batting & fabric for the outer border.

I have more of the ivory fabric (it's in the three blocks in the upper right-hand corner that are the same: a stripe of floral, then a stripe of the ivory, the a stripe of dark purple), and I'm going to use that for the inner border (will be 1-2" wide).

I can't decide what color to use for the outer border & binding: I'm thinking a dark green, or perhaps a burgundy or purple... those are both dark colors I have a lot of in my quilt. Help me decide! What color do you think I should use as a nice wide dark frame for my quilt? :D

I have backing fabric, but I don't think I have enough of it to use for this quilt (the quilt ended bigger than I thought it would)!

The blocks that I liked putting together the most were the 'flying geese' (the blocks that are in three 4-block patterns across the middle, with the two large triangles in each block), and the 'log cabin' blocks (the ones with lots and lots of little strips in them - I've arranged them into two 4-block patterns at the top & bottom of the quilt). The others I found to be a bit difficult (well not the ones that were just three wide strips - those were ok, but they're also a bit boring).

Comments

[hatman]

Looking good! :)

And hey, you're a quilting bee!

(I'm sure you've never heard that one before...)

I think I'd cross the burgundy off the list, personally. The purple could tie it all together, especially since the center panels are purple. I don't think the burgundy would be quite as friendly to the border purple.

But the green could be nice for contrast. I'm fond of green. It's a soothing color. And while there are smatters of green throughout, there aren't really any large patches of it (unlike the purple). And it does go with the floral borders.

[rosebee]

Yes, if I had something other than purple near the border, then the red might work.

I'm leaning towards the green as well (they're showing up almost black in the photo), I like the soothing nature of it and it should frame & anchor the quilt nicely. :)

Now to just go *find* the perfect shade/pattern of fabric (that's the hard part)!

[rainbow]

Oooh, very pretty!

Hmm. Purple is my very favourite colour, but I think a medium dark to dark green would suit the quilt better.

Are you going to do a flat solid or a fabric that has ... hmmm. words are not my friends. Like a tie-dyed or salted look, where there's color variation?

[rosebee]

I'm not sure what kind of fabric I'll use. Probably one that has some color variation in it (I think that's the word you were trying to come up with).

I'm leaning towards the dark green as well! What I'd love, was a dark green that had some tiny bits of another color in it. One of the dark green fabrics in the quilt (around the purple triangles in the middle) is a dark green with a small abstract floral design in a lighter green. Then another dark green has black waves/swirls in it.

[rainbow]

*nod* variation, yes. I think that would work beautifully, and if you can find a green with bits of any of the other colours in it, that will tie allthe colours together nicely.