I said I was going to put those squares to rest till September…… well wrong!!!
I saw a blog today, with a lovely quilt similar to the one I have been working.
And yes, I use numbers all day long, when I start in a quilt I don’t really use my calculator, wrong some would say.
As I was saying I saw this quilt today, and alarm bells started ringing…
There’s me, trying to insert extra rows, fancy rows, dreaming of colours, imagining things.Stop!!!
You have done quite a lot of squares already girl… how many beds are you trying to cover here??
Well so one gets home, and starts putting squares in my king size bed, I know I still have to allow to seams and all that, but….
But ….. you have in your bed at the moment 88 squares and you have done 120… oooppppsss
Just the 120 squares will be something like 55’ x 66’ and that’s without the borders
Forget about all those fancy ‘in between’ rows. Forget all that!!
Let’s keep it simple!!
Sew all the squares together and then …. and only then add a border… or two….
Why do we complicate sometimes?
Or really why do I complicate sometimes?
When it’s just so easy!!
It’s a busy quilt. True
I’m more of a sort of calm, soft, boring type of girl, but… I still love it
It’s different, and sometimes we have to change
By the way I am going I’ll soon have one for each day of the year lol
It’s my ‘ Simply Scrappy Quilt’ … think I just named it
Next one will be calmer….. soft … and not boring at all!!
Double wow!!
ReplyDeleteLike thatm you can even use the remaining squares to do the pillow covers!
Thank You Naná
ReplyDeleteI will have to use all the squares in the quilt,it looks bigger now,because they are not sewn, they will shrink unfortunately.
And by now I'm ready for my next one lol!!
Specially when fabric arrives in the post.
Tempting very very tempting ;-)
Olá! os tecidos do quilt são simplesmente maravilhosos e com combinação perfeita! Ficará lindo! Também eu tento me aventuarar na execução de um iniciado e não terminado.
ReplyDeleteAguardo o resultado final!
Olá Elisabete, primeiro que tudo seja muito Bem Vinda aqui ao meu cantinho.
ReplyDeleteMuito Obrigada pelo comentário sobre o quilt, gostei muito de o fazer, quer dizer ainda nao está acabado, mas deu-me muito gozo, pois tive a aproveitar as tiras que comprei num saco. Dou mais valor a este estilo de quilt, e afinal, noutros tempos, os quilts eram mesmo isso aproveitamento de tecidos. Esses a mim sao os mais especiais. Comecei ontem outro, que tambem vai ser de tecidos que me deram, quer dizer aquilo até eram catalogos de tecidos, com amostras, esse alem de ter quadradinhos muito pequeninos, á pois é .... sou um pouco masoquista eu sei ;-), tambem me vai dar assim um bocadinho de trabalho.
Mas o gozo que tenho de os fazer e depois de os usar, bate tudo.
Agora só falta, tu mostrares o teu, se precisares de alguma informacao, nao tenhas problemas em perguntar que eu ajudarei no que puder.
Eu assim que tiver dado um pouco mais de avanço ponho fotos dos dois novos quilts que comecei.
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