Our long ago quilting sister had a little problem with her orange fabric. It looks like she tore strips and the squares wound up as rectangles. Meanwhile, the quarter square triangles on the two sides are cut with the bias on the outside edge - you can see how they have stretched out of shape and bulge on the sides.
I'm planning to leave the block as she designed and mostly how she made it - though I did take it apart, and a bit of trimming to make the "squares" square so this will fit into a nice flat quilt might have happened before I put it back together. It was not possible to get all the points to stay pointy but the result is something she would recognize if she were able to see the quilt I'm going to make from this block.
I wrote that like I know where I'm going with this challenge. I have some ideas, but I'm not ready to start cutting and stitching. The blue-purple of the triangles is related to my Jane Austen blocks, but one of the challenges for this quilt is to include green in the finished quilt. This block has no relationship to green and what I'm doing for that series has no green either, so I have to stop thinking about that.
2 comments:
Wow.
Oh boy....challenge indeed, but I know you will make it look beautiful in the end!!
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