Say Hello to Miss P

Not only do many of my projects take a long time, I also seem to have a genuine knack for dragging my heels on sharing them. Case in point, Posh Penelope by Sew Kind of Wonderful, or Miss P as she is known to Roberta and I. Like we did for Holiday Forest, we decided to work on this one together hoping that the buddy system would keep things moving (I need all of the help that I can get!).

Believe it or not, we started this quilt three years ago and I don't think that I have shared anything about it with you. It is made using the Quick Curve ruler but 'quick' is a bit of a misnomer for me (Roberta's a different story) as my blocks are all sewn but still need to be sewn into a flimsy.

Wanting to have as much variety in our fabrics as possible because we needed 168 assorted fabrics for the petals, we decided to each cut and then swap pieces; three years ago today was the date of our swap. We had more than enough variety so each of our final fabric choices were far from identical.

This was my fabric pull.

And this.

And these are the neutrals/low volume, mostly solid prints that I used for the bands that cut across the corners.

It was like klepto quilting (basically 'shopping' in someone else's stash for free) but even better, because everything was cut to size! These are some of the 1" squares needed at the centre of each block.

Where we differed in our approach was how we treated the narrow strip that runs across each corner - Roberta went with strong prints...

and mine were more neutral/low volume. It's interesting to see the difference in the final product.

More to come in the next few posts...M