Well, since I was out of town for a long weekend there wasn't much progress on the baby quilt.
However, I have played around with the fabrics a bit and cut some squares.
At first, I was envisioning straight patchwork, no borders between squares, just 4" squares all in a row.
Then I cut a bunch of 4.5" squares to get ready to start and when I tried lining them up beside each other, I just didn't like the colors together. Sigh.
So...I thought maybe I'd use the brown(s) as "accents" and border the 4" squares w/thin brown strips so I laid out one of the brown fat quarters and laid a few of the 4" pink tone fabrics on top to simulate the effect and I didn't like that too much either.
I know, hard to please, but I want to realllly like this quilt, I mean, it will be some work to put it together and I envision baby girl having it around for a long time!
So...I thought maybe I'd try making some 4 patch blocks and seeing how that would look, so I cut some more squares from the leftover pieces I had and started liking things a little more at this point. Here are a few "idea" blocks I laid out when I was playing around w/the smaller squares.
So...now I think MAYBE I'll alternate 4 patch blocks with the larger 4" squares of a single fabric and see how that looks....
Maybe tonight I'll sew up a few of the 4 patches and we'll go from there.
Anyone have any thoughts?
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Cranberry Cheese Ball
8 hours ago
2 comments:
I like the four patches a lot and will be looking forward to seeing what other combinations you come up with. When in doubt, try all possibilities and go with the ones you like best!
it I were putting that quilt together I would probably make every other square a cream/parchment color and every other square a print...all the prints that you used here. that way it will let the individual fabrics shine.
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