I was playing a game with myself: I could not write another blog post until I completed the top on the quilt discussed in the post, Diving into a quilt (and other stuff), Happy Ending.
Alas, I am writing a post and I have not finished the quilt top, but I have made some progress with this half-square-triangel (HST) pattern and sections are on the design wall (note – my design wall is in my narrow hallway so I can only photograph large pieces in the works from angles):
I am still wrangling with piecing the HSTs into the setting fabric and there are sections all over my little sewing room:
At the sewing machine table:
On the ironing board:
This quilt is going to be a collaboration with my blogging buddy Cindy of A Quilter’s Corner with Cindy Anderson (inastitchquilting.com) who is a long-arm quilter. I will be mailing the quilt top and the backing to her for her long-arm quilting artistry. So I bet she will have this quilt on her blog too after she quilts it.
It is late so no additional ramblings at this time. Tomorrow is Saturday and I am determined to keep wrangling these HSTs and their setting fabric until they become a quilt top! (More later on my thoughts about using a “shot cotton” type fabric as a setting fabric…kind of challenging even if it is a heavier weight shot cotton).
Love the navy with the minimal touches of colour. Beautiful.
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Thank you! I think it will be very cool once finished and it is bigger than I thought it was in my mind (I have no perspective on measurements!)
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I do love that dark background with the pops of color. I can’t wait to see how the quilting will enhance this great pattern!
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Thanks and I know – I am looking forward to see what Cindy does with it!
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Shot cotton, oh so beautiful. But what I’ve purchased has been hard to work with, and ultimately I gave it away.
I’m not wrangling fabric today. I’m going to our state capitol and marching, rallying for peace, justice, and progress.
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Happy marching, hope your day is wonderful and filled with hope. I am using a heavier shot cotton – Peppered Cottons but still they have some of the standard shot cotton issues…
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Simply beautiful!
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Why thank you 🙂
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Nice design you have going here. I too find shot cotton too sheer, though beautiful.
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This is a heavier shot cotton – the Peppered Cottons line by Pepper Cory, still the fraying at the ends are irritating and there is not much stretch to it.
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Love the dark neutral!
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Thank You 🙂
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It looks fantastic but of course because you made it! I love the blue in the background in particular!
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Why thank you for your kind comment 🙂
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I love the color combinations. You said you were impressed by people making their own clothes, but in my opinion this IS impressing.
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Why thank you 😀
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Well all the details, and the amount of work to put it all together. 😊
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What a fun quilt! And the black looks great as a background!
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Thanks and it is a dark blue (ink) 😀
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Looks like you are making great progress! Can’t wait to receive it and set my magic machine to work on it. Happy quilting!
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I know! I just need the piecing elves to come in the middle of the night and get it finished off – ha!
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If you find them, please send them my way. 🤓
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