If I had thought about into just how many squares I would be quilting essentially the same little flower-fill ... maybe I would have opted for some nice overall design. The answer is that in my 25 checkerboard-style 16-patch blocks, half of the squares–200 of them–are cream. Surrounding them are 84 cream triangles in the triangle squares in which I also planned dense free-motion quilting. What was I thinking :-)
If you find it a little boring to see what looks to be essentially the same in-progress photos ... imagine how I feel. No wonder I am so easily distracted by english paper piecing and my little star flower tea cozy project.
I have resisted doing an actual count of how many completed/left to quilt until this morning: 151 cream squares quilted, 49 to go. After all these flower shapes, I'm thinking about something leaf-inspired for the triangle border.
This will be my mid-month check-in for a Lovely Year of Finishes and for Esther's WOW (WIPS on Wednesday) Link list and for WIP Wednesday on Freshly Pieced ... I promise no more boringly similar photos of this project until I finish the squares and am, at least, quilting the triangle border :-)
9 comments:
These colorful squares pop in the sea of cream. It will be a lovely finish and I think you will be happy you spent time quilting all the flower shapes.
You've already done 151?! That's fabulous - congratulations! Those last 49 will be a piece of cake :)
I have a feeling you are going to be really good at quilting that little flower!
Still laughing, it's a bit like my Cathedral windows LOL Cheers Glenda PS love your colours
Real pretty quilt!
You are doing great! I just pin basted my UFO!
You're three-quarters of the way there!! Woop! And it's always nice to have a few different projects to take up and put down when the going gets tough/boring/headwrecking on one ;)
Gorgeous, gorgeous quilt!
Sophie, I don't check the Quilt blogs very often but thought I would check them out today.You have been doing some beautiful things. love the scrappy brights!
Sheri
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