Floral Applique blocks all assembled
04-18-2011, 03:24 AM
#22
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Location: Long Island, NY
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It's like curling up with a bouquet of flowers! Great job--and you were sick? Wow! I like the idea of continuing the green and white all around. Glad you're feeling better. Keeping a sense of humor is right up there with chicken soup.
04-18-2011, 07:57 AM
#25
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Love your quilt. I have the repertory flu and secondary infection for the second time all I want to do is quilt. Have finished one quilt and am working on piecing the second one. If it wasn't for quilting I would have spent this time in bed. My husband has been a champ about me quilting instead of cleaning and cooking.He knows I don't feel good. Yea for good husbands.
04-18-2011, 09:23 AM
#28
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Location: California, USA
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Your top is beautiful. May I suggest that you finish with the green fabric strip, same size as you were using for the next border. This will finish framing the quilt.
Then take the white fabric, if you still have some, and make about a 3-4 inch border. Applique a simple vine with leaves and flowers like the ones in the quilt itself on this border.
The binding could be a multi-colored green that reads like a solid or maybe even a multi-colored flower fabric with a very, very small print. The colors of the flowers should blend with the colors in the quilt.
Good luck. Glad to hear you are feeling better. I was out for 10 weeks (for 4 weeks, I felt like part of the furniture) most of the time I had what my brother called "sleeping sickness" so I couldn't have quilted if I wanted to.
Great life lessons, too. ROTFL
Then take the white fabric, if you still have some, and make about a 3-4 inch border. Applique a simple vine with leaves and flowers like the ones in the quilt itself on this border.
The binding could be a multi-colored green that reads like a solid or maybe even a multi-colored flower fabric with a very, very small print. The colors of the flowers should blend with the colors in the quilt.
Good luck. Glad to hear you are feeling better. I was out for 10 weeks (for 4 weeks, I felt like part of the furniture) most of the time I had what my brother called "sleeping sickness" so I couldn't have quilted if I wanted to.
Great life lessons, too. ROTFL
04-18-2011, 03:46 PM
#29
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Join Date: Feb 2011
Location: Peoria Arizona
Posts: 696
I like StitchinJoy's suggestion. Just enough to pulling it all together without overpowering those beautiful delicate appliqed flowers and the alphabet letters. Agree with your hubby - the pansies do look a little angry. Must be the flu!
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