The front is assembled! It's turned out a bit skinnier and taller than I thought: it's 46" wide, and 72" tall. But I'm not sure how to make it wider without making it taller. Another whole strip would make it wider than I want (plus I'd have to make more triangles). I was thinking of making some kind of border. Would it look funny on just two sides? I guess I could pull some off the top and bottom if I wanted to add it all the way around. Bah. But I love how it looks. So maybe someone would be happy with a skinny, tall quilt?
Pressing open all those seams may have been the right thing to do, but it was a painful process. I'm pleased with the results: my points are fairly flat and pointer than I had hoped! I guess it was worth the occasional steamed fingers.
My stash is comprised of mostly half-yard (or smaller) chunks of fabric. The few larger pieces I had would not go with this quilt. So I grabbed a handful or two I thought would go together. It's a scrappy front, why not a scrappy back? Now to sew something together without too many seams, please.
In between working on this, I just finished cutting fabric for the last of my Homebase blocks. I liked the
brights with this pattern - it just didn't work for
Stepping Stones. Now I'll get to see how they work on a baby quilt.
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Pressing open all those seams may have been the right thing to do, but it was a painful process. I'm pleased with the results: my points are fairly flat and pointer than I had hoped! I guess it was worth the occasional steamed fingers.
It looks great with that layout! Adding narrow top and bottom borders and wide side borders might work. I wouldn't worry about the size too much. It's a lovely quilt as is.
ReplyDelete-Soma
Sally, I love this layout. It has so much movement.
ReplyDeleteIt looks like you can also piece a single column - two triangles wide and it should make it wider. You can make non-stripy triangles in coordinating fabric and add to either side if you don't want to make more stripes. I do like what Soma says - that'll be the quickest.
Vasudha
Me thinks your skinnier and taller quilt top is lovely. Who says that quilts have to be a certain size anyway. =)
ReplyDeleteSometimes when I'm having trouble getting to sleep I'll do a couple of online jigsaw puzzles. Lately, I've been choosing quilts - they make dandy jigsaws!
ReplyDeleteDoes this make me a quilter-once-removed? ;)