As my cold clears up I'm slowly getting to the point where I am even the slightest bit interested in putting something together, and that's a nice change. Nothing huge, but a start. I joined my three scrappy basket blocks with mismatched pieces of sashing and laid them out with the picot border.
Because I just sewed my border HSTs to a size that I liked and not necessarily one based on the basket block size I'm going to need to insert a sashing along the edges to make everything fit. That's been too much math for me to get my head around lately so I think what I'll do is just sew a long 2.5" strip of neutrals together to keep things scrappy and then trim what I need to so that everything fits.
I need to lay it all out on a larger table to work on it so that I have at least half a chance of getting the dimensions right. And as I look at the photos I'm starting to wonder if I need to add the brown floral outer border. More decisions to be made.....M
A border of neutrals is the perfect idea! I'm with you! Such pretty baskets!
ReplyDeleteI like how you work, Marie, making decisions as you go along. It seems a flexible and adaptable way to work. Your baskets look great all together and I'm sure the light, scrappy border will be perfect, especially with the triangles around the edge.
ReplyDeleteI hope you'll feel all better soon.
--Nancy. (ndmessier @ aol.com, joyforgrace.blogspot.com)
A good sign that you are on the road to recovery - sewing again! I like the work it out as I go approach too, even if I work it out, I like to have the wiggle room for when the maths fails!
ReplyDeleteIt's always interesting to see where we are led
ReplyDeleteHi Marie: what a nasty bug that has put a damper on your creative mojo and happy to hear you can see a light at the end of it. Love what you are doing with the baskets and light border. I would love to see you bring more of that beautiful brown floral into the outside of the piece--it would be a "framing" for it. Nice work, love it. Lindiana xo
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