Topic: Quilting
On the Quiltville blog in November 2017, a new mystery quilt was started. Now, I have said to myself ('declared' is more accurate) several times that I would never do another mystery quilt, but I got sucked in by the inspiration photo, the name and the color palette (coral, teal, chocolate, cream).
While I worked off and on toward the goal what I didn't like was:
- I had too wide a range of values within each color reducing the continuity in the pattern.
- This designer works with REALLY small pieces.
- The pattern is for a queen sized quilt with no details on downsizing it. I didn't NEED a queen sized but had to make all the parts anyway becuse you don't know how they all go together until you have all the pieces in hand.
So, I made ALL the parts called for (grumping all the way, mind you) and came to the 'reveal' with a dissapointed "yikes"!
I decided to make enough extra of the side setting triangle units that I could break the pattern in half and finish off the edges where they split apart.
One is backed with a dirty coral print with small dragonflies. The other has a solid coral backing from the same fabric as the binding on both. One is quilted with stitch-in-the-ditch around major shapes in the blocks. The other is quilted with a large meander in coral.
The best thing I can say about these is "they are done". I am naming them Thing One and Thing Two.
Because of the split I ended up with 4 blocks left over. I told the ladies at my group that, if someone wouldn't take them I would rotary trim them into small pieces and toss them. One of the ladies took them to make a doll blanket for a niece. Nice save!
Now, I hereby declare, "I will never make another mystery quilt." And, this time, I mean it!
Ddd
Posted by studio3d@ccgmail.net
at 11:16 AM PDT
