After more OT posts than O, I am working on a quilt! Did I mention that I will be a great aunt in October? Well, I am. I don't have a stash (I know, I know, WHat WAs i ThinKIng?) so I had to go to the LQS. I got 1/2 yard each of red orange yellow green blue indigo violet. They are a combo of screen prints and marbles and other abstract things. Right now they are a pile of strips on my ironing board: must stop reading email and start sewing!
liz young in sunny california
So why are they in strips ???? What pattern are you using ?????
Don't tell us only half of the story
Dee in Oz
Am making it up! My new favorite thing!
This is what I've done so far. Get 1/2 yard each of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet Cut each color into strips (crosswise) 1 1/2", 2", 2 1/2", 3", 2 1/2",
2", 1 1/2" or you can think of it as two 1 1/2" strips, two 2" strips, two 2 1/2" strips, ONE 3" strip.Lay out all the strips, sorted by color and width. Assemble strips as follows: First set - R 1 1/2", O 2", Y 2 1/2", G 3", B 2 1/2", I 2", V 1 1/2" Make 6 more sets, shifting your starting 1 1/2" strip by one color. So the second set would be O 1 1/2", Y 2", G 2 1/2", B 3", I 2 1/2", V 2", R 1 1/2" Third would start Y 1 1/2" Got it?
I have all but one set of 7 colors assembled (dinner intervened)
Next I will iron them all, and chop them into squares. I'm quite sure that this will make odd size blocks, but since every block is going in the same quilt, I don't really care.
Then I will lay out all the blocks on the living room floor, go upstairs and look over the balcony at them. Go down the stairs and rearrange them. Go back upstairs. Repeat. Repeat. Until I like what I see. Sew 'em up, find some backing and binding, put it all together and ship it off to my niece. But not before I take pictures!
liz young in cool california
sounds smashing!
Carol in TX Need therapy? Make a quilt!
Making it up is the most exciting way to go!! This sounds great, actually. Well done, Liz. . In message , Elizabeth Young writes
This gives a wonderful idea for where I could put a design wall in, after our extensions are done! Thank you!
Sounds great! And all that exercise thrown in too! ;-) Roberta in D
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Congratulations! :)
You *had* to go? Gosh, what a shame! LOL!
Oooo, sounds pretty! Be sure to let us see it when it's put together! :)
It sounds great -- and you're getting some exercise into the bargain! LOL!
I missed the original post (someone must have pirated it), but this sounds very interesting! I have a bunch of rainbow-hued fabrics that I dyed with my quilt bee group. I hope you can take pictures at some point, so I can get some more ideas for mine. Ideas other than Diana's "send them to me"!
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