sample of what I hope to be my first quilt

It does look good, Jacqueline. You might find it easier to make your sashing 1" wide. This mock-up looks like half an inch? That would not be easy on yourself! Also, it would be much easier to do without cornerstones, and they are certainly not necessary. Putting them in entails a lot of seam matching, which might take more time than they are worth, at this stage. I would just go with the sashing (the yellow is fine - really 'lifts' the blue, a traditional partner of yellow). It's going to look lovely. If your cousins are in the same family, it might be a good idea to do the sashing in different colours, to differentiate between them. Perhaps yellow for one, as you have done; and red for the other? or even Mickey's black! . In message , Jacqueline writes

Very cute! Your cousins will love their doll quilts. Are the blocks done as individual ones in your program? I'm wondering if you can experiment with arranging them differently so that you get different patterns emerging. I'm not saying this well. :-( When I look at what you have shown us, I see strong vertical lines because of the color placement. I'm wondering if you can play with shifting the blocks around to see what happens.

Rita L. - quitt> I have sat up tonight scanning the material then drawing out in paint

it looks like you are well on your way to making a nice quilt - I'd wait with deciding the sashing till you have all the blocks made, as real life and computer sometimes differ on opinion. also doing sashing on the bias will be a nightmare - keep it on the straight of grain - you will otherwise spend all eternity cursing the quilt ;-)

incidentally: 4 squares of 5" will make a 9" square ( you said 7 1/2" somewhere else hence my comment)

That is if they were cut 5.25, these were precut and are only 5" so that is actually going to be a 4.75 block, and you are almost right, I believe though that it will be a 9.5 block, I was thinking of 4 inch squares. Heck I don't know I need to go to bed and quit playing with this stuff. LOL I am trying to quit smoking and they have put me on a new medicine that just recently came out, called Chantix, the side effects are no sleep and headaches which I have both and normally I do not get the side effects of a medication. I figure the headache is from lack of sleep. Anyway, tomorrow, well today, is my last day to smoke, you smoke the first few days, then you increase your dosage and quit. LOL, if I can't sleep on this low dose what will I be like tomorrow when I start the higher dose? Probably bouncing off walls.

I have quit on my own before, and had my mother lived seven more days I would have been quit a year, but I figure I would have started back even if she had lived those seven days so I don't blame her. I figured I needed to quit for more than one reason, but I smoke outside and I sure won't get any quilting done if I have to run outside to smoke and I sure wouldn't smoke around some handiwork I was doing.

You all pray for me that I make it for good this time. I have been convicted to quit for a long time now and have quit for at least six months on several occasions. Grrrrrr, why did I start back!

Jacqueline

Rita, I have them done as individual blocks in the program but it is a graphics program and it would take hours to do it that way. I will lay it out before I start sewing and decide if I want to move the blocks around. I have EQ5 but I can't figure out how to do a block out of squares on it. When I did mine all turned out where you could only see a little of the fabric, like the blue with the Mickeys, you could only see the checks in it, so that won't work either but I know I did something wrong and there has to be a way to make a block to with your materials and then copy over to the quilt top. I just need to learn how. I believe this is the most complicate program I have ever attempted to learn and I have learned lots of programs in my life time.

Jacqueline

Jacqueline

Good idea, they are twins so yes they are in the same family.

Jacquel>It does look good, Jacqueline.

Jacqueline

Forgot to say this, I have planned on doing 1 inch sashing on it, but I drew this out by hand on a graphics program. I was told that corner stones made the quilt more forgiving if everything didn't line up just perfect so I don't know. I have wondered how to do them. I guess I will wait and see. I just wish I could figure out how to make a block in EQ5 that will let me put it in the block on the program. Man, I could fly then with designing.

Jac which is the way I normally sign my name, Jacqueline will be in the signature, but for short notes I am going to start using Jac. LOL fewer letters to type by all means.

Jacqueline

No, Jessamy is right. If your squares are 5 inch squares, once you do 1/4 inch seams on all four sides, your block will finish to 9 inches. When I am calculating finished size, I always forget that I actually will be sewing all around the square :+).

I don't doubt that she is, I still have gotten in bed yet, you can't expect my brain to be working right now can you? I slept two hours Wednesday night, Tuesday night I went to bed at 11 AM on Wed. for the first time and slept less than 2 hours that day, then I have been up all night tonight. Fixing to crawl between the 49.95 quilt that I bought at JC Pennys and between the sheets though because my mind is fuzzy now.

Jac

Jacqueline

It's going to look great, Jacqueline, and the kids will love it! =20

And remember, there are no quilt police (a lesson I had trouble learning)!!

-Irene

-------------- You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.=20

--Mae West=20

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Oops! sorry - missed the 'twin cousins' bit >g< . In message , Jacqueline writes

That is great. Only one thing I might change and that is the "plainer" looking fabrics could be opposite diagonally and the bolder patterns the same,but that is only me nit picking!! lol

I was thinking the same thing myself, Estelle.

Jacqueline,

What sweet quilts those little ones will be getting. It's only 5:30 a.m. here, so I won't dare wade into the question of the size of the squares. But I will suggest that you wait to see the squares put together before deciding about a sashing.

Enjoy your time sewing, and yes -- for heaven's sake -- stay away from cigarettes. Please. My dad died with lung cancer when I was 18.

Hugs and good wishes, Sunny

No p*rn, just great fabrics! :)

Harsh comment: It looks smashing, and the yellow is perfect! ;)

I completely agree with what Pat says, Jacqueline! I like the contrast that the sashing gives the blocks -- and I like the fact that you're not sashing each square. :) Cute fabrics!

When you scan your fabrics, Jacqueline, you will need to open them in a graphics program and shrink them down. Then they'll show up as they should in EQ5. Check out pages 158-159 of the EQ5 Design Cookbook; it has a green cover and came with the program. :)

Hi Jacqueline! Try this:

Cute! Personally, I would switch the solid blue square so it's diagonal to the red (instead of next to the red) for a better balance of values. That blue would look nice for the cornerstones too, especially if you keep the yellow sashing. Roberta in D

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