I have just signed up for the Winter Mini-Quilt swap.
The deadline is quite tight - post by the 1st of March if I need to post abroad, so I'd better start thinking now.
The batik project is causing me a few problems.
Firstly having pieced all 86 blocks I stuck them up on my design wall in my intended seminole design. Admittedly the wall was white and I would use a coloured batik for the inbetween squares, but the planned design just didn't "sing" to me.
During the week I had some of the blocks up on the wall - they were all together with no space between and they were definitely buzzing. But I don't want to just do squares!!!. And if I did do just squares I wouldn't have enough blocks for the quilt - not even enough for a single bed quilt.
So I don't know what to do. Tomorrow I am going to a fabric shop which has a sale on and hope to buy a few batiks to go with my blocks. Then I can think on.
Thoughts for now - perhaps join some blocks, or cut them (!) and sew pieced rectangles somehow. Border them somehow to give them some breathing space.
A finish for April 2024...............
9 hours ago
Hi! I'm Maria, I'm living for few months in Leicester. I'm spanish, so sorry for my mistakes.
ReplyDeleteAll you've done is grate!!!
I like very much your blog.
If you don't mine I'll put it with my favorites blogs in my blog.
With your batik quilt you've a dificult decision. Perhaps making rectangles around your squares with diferent fabric each square...
Do you know if there are some shops or pathcwork groups to go?
Thanks
Maria
maria - I don't see how to email you. You can email me on ridgeandfurrow@googlemail.com
ReplyDeleteYou could sew them together, do an inner border, do some more batiks as a middle border, then an outer border. Maybe that would bring it up to the size you want?
ReplyDeleteI decided to enter the winter mini-quilt swap as well. My fabrics are sitting on my cutting board at the moment. I'm going for whimsy this time round.