Monday (again)!
Apr. 13th, 2009 07:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rosebeeIt 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.
link to full size image
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).
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.
link to full size image
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).
