When I did the cut outs for this quilt, my original thought was to put them with nine patch squares of all the colours that you see here on this quilt. Well when I started to put the pieces together, it looked awful. Really awful.
So I changed plans and made the little white quilt(see side bar) just to see how it would look. It's only about 36 X 36 and looked really good.
So..... on to this one of using 6 1/2" squares with 2" white X 6 1/2 to border it and 4" white strips on the sides of each strip. It looks really good and Wilson just had to get into the photo and was very curious to see what I had put on the floor.
I am really pleased with the results and the quilt is about 60" square, with the striped blue and white on the back side it looks really good. I made diagonal binding again as it just finished this project. I had a hard time matching the diagonal pieces to look like the stripes were all going the same way. I think it's because I folded the fabric so some of the stripes are backwards to each other you know what I mean? Anyhow it still looks good.
Last night I watched the Grammy awards for the first time in years. And I mean years. I loved
the show! Truely talented night of entertainment and I loved the combination of all the singers doing stuff that they don't normally do.I loved Kid Rock's number and he was really a rocker as the saying goes. I must find some of his stuff in the next couple of days. Robert Plant and Alison Crouse were deserving of their award. Two really different people who came together and had incredible success.
Even the rappers didn't turn me off because they did entertaining (with me in mind) for masses that don't normally listen to them. Not that it made me change my mind about rap music, but it seemed that whoever was planning the show thought of how to best use the entertainers.
Coldplay had been on 60 Minutes last night and I had no idea who they really were and it certainly gave me an insite on this group. They are also good performers and then of course Sir Paul did his show and the place just jumped! He still has it and all the performers there loved his classic rock.
When the show finished, I had finished the hand sewing of the quilt. A good night.
8 comments :
Your white quilt with squares is very nice and I see it has met with approval of your quilt inspector!
Try to stay warm. We had snow yesterday and it is really cold but we only have a dusting..............mabye snow up to the roofline would be better as it would insulate the house better...........we have a wood fireplace to heat the house.
I like this quilt - that would be a way for me to use up some of my scraps - I will have to keep it in mind.
Karen
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Beautiful quilt.I may have to paint my room to go with it.;)
I missed the Grammys this year, too bad, sounds like it was a good one! I was so disappointed a few years back that I stopped watching. I love Coldplay though.
I love you quilt, looks lovely!
Cheers,
Dionne
That's very pretty!
Pretty!
And its MINE!!! Yahoo. Thank you Mom! I am going to paint my room in a nice refreshing crisp blue. I will post before and after shots but it won't be until March.
Kelly
oh, i love this one, too! again, the white sashing is so wonderful for letting the other fabrics really pop. what a beautiful quilt. i like the uneven sashing, too. a fun twist.
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