Yes, I’m back to staring at the “Hello Betty” coin stacks, trying to determine if I want to chunk them up into smaller stacks with white sashing in between, or leave them as is.
Having just been through that giant Basting Fiasco, I am underwhelmed with desire to do that all again, although I could try [...]
When I took a photo of my design wall Saturday night, this what what I planned to post:
I got frak-all accomplished this week, thanks to the headache. Then I decided to put the Kansas Troubles fabric up, just to see what approximate size of quilt I’d have when I was done:
Not bad – that’ll make [...]
I’m back to contemplating the Hello Betty coin stack, which needs to be sashed and sandwiched. I had originally planned to sash it in white and back it in yellow, but now I’m thinking of sashing it in blue or yellow, and backing it with whichever one I don’t pick. There will be pieced elements [...]
“It seems like a clown exploded into squares on your wall or you summoned a Tetris Elemental.”
Truer words have never been spoken than those by one of the support supervisors at work. He’s named my quilt for me.
I made some progress on the Random Front. I started picking up rectangles from the piles [...]
“Look, I’m making a random pattern!”
“No, you’re not. You’re being deliberately random, not completely random. There’s a difference.”
“It’s random… I mean, I made sure no two like fabrics were next to each other… but other than that…”
<heavy sigh> “You strategically placed each strip, making sure there wasn’t too much blue in one area, or that [...]