Have finished my quilt as you go blocks and manged to get them all sewn together on Sunday. I knew I wouldn't have enough of one fabric or even two to make a quilt back so I chose about a dozen fabrics from my stash that all go together but I no longer like and needed to use them up. I was going to go for horizontal stripes but that was going to end up too 'random' looking ( to use my daughters current favourite phrase), so I cut up 14 1/2 " squares from the larger pieces to match up with the 14 1/2 " blocks on the quilt top. Then I cut smaller squares from the smaller fabric pieces that when pieced together 4x4 make up a 14 1/2 square as in the photo below. When I first cut these smaller squares I made a wee calculation error and made them too big which I guess is better than too small, so had to trim them all (128) to the correct size. I tried to get Amelia on to it yesterday but she found it all a little boring.
I know these fabrics aren't very inspiring but the colours go together nicely and it has made a nice dent in my fabric stash which I can now fill with prettier more modern looking fabrics.
4 comments:
Looking good Catherine! I think you've most definitely earned some new fabric :)
Maybe individually these fabrics don't excite you too much but together they look fab! So... backing looks great, 'ugly' fabric got rid off AND new stash buys. Win,win,win situtation!
Oh, I do NOT like making calculation errors! Very frustrating. I do it all the time...But you worked through it. Way to persevere!
Looks good ! New fabirc sounds wonderful - and of course well earned.
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