So I think I'm ready to declare that this quilt top is finished and ready to be quilted. It was in the short stack that I shared for WIP Wednesday, and even as I posted that I still wasn't sure.
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| Sorry for the weird lighting, my only option was inside at night. Still looks pretty good. |
I really started making this top after seeing Faith's progress pictures on Instagram. And her
Arkansas Traveler quilt turned out awesome! (
Check out these pictures on her blog, Fresh Lemons!) I just had a stack of fabric leftover from another quilt, and an urge to make something.
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| My son loved playing with the diamonds. He needs some tangrams. |
So I started piecing the diamonds, totally skipping the paper-piecing part and just going for it. And it didn't turn out too bad, I just made sure that when I trimmed the squares, that my points were a 1/4" in from the seam.
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| Go little matching points! |
After I put the all the blocks together, I hit my roadblock. I couldn't decide if it needed borders. And to really make that decision, I kind of needed to see it, but I didn't have any sizable scraps left to mock it up.
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| I don't think any of these are really working as a border. They just take away from the awesome geometric shapes. |
The only solution was to order yardage of a few of the colors I really liked, that I wouldn't be too heartbroken if they just ended up joining my stash. So the top got shuffled to the bottom of a pile o' projects waiting for fabric. And then when I got the fabric in, I'd totally lost interest in the whole project! Ugh!
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| Really thought one of these two would be the winner. |
But now I've seen it with borders, and decided that I didn't like how it looked at all. So I just sewed on a thin strip of the background fabric so that the diamonds don't get lost in any squaring up that I might have to do after I quilt it.
Not exactly finished, but out of the project stack and into the to-be-quilted stack! (Now to get inspiration for the quilting design...)
Linking up with
Crazy Mom Quilts for Finish It Up Friday!
