Four pairs of petals build out into a beautiful blossom in each block of this quilt and choosing which four prints to use in each block was a lot of fun.
I started out making one block at a time to ensure that I got things right but after a considerable stall, and needing 42 completed blocks, around 15 blocks in I moved to batch processing to get things moving along faster, first four at a time and at some points, eight at a time.
As more and more blocks were sewn it seemed a good idea to decide on all of the colour combos for each block to ensure that I had fabric mixes that suited rather than doing that as I went, so eventually I did that.
It was a great way to visualize how much was left to do and also helped serve as an incentive to keep moving (not that the box didn't often get set to the side).
You can see where the colours in Roberta's blocks were much stronger than for the wall quilt she had made.
And she didn't seem to have as much of an issue as I did with integrating those darker backgrounds.
Sewing that long curve is actually very forgiving. Thanks to a little help from the bias cut, it felt almost like a straight line when the pieces were matched up.
It was when you went to match the two pieces that the fretting set in. I am a pinner so I worked very hard to make this seam work, but there was often an inevitable fractional slide.
Initially, I was very concerned when they weren't absolutely perfect, but eventually I realized that they were close enough. Once it is quilted it will be even more difficult to tell if there is a slightly bigger gap between some of them....M
1 comment:
This is such an interesting quilt pattern and the blocks are beautiful. I'm looking forward to seeing the colors in the rest of the blocks and seeing them together. I'm like you, I pin, too, and go for perfection, but also, like you, I'm learning to adapt to not perfect knowing that it won't show in the finished quilt (unless someone is searching).
Post a Comment