More Tips for fabric selection:
I apologize for those who are ready to cut. I came across some tips while working on this that might prove helpful as you continue to select your fabrics.
I ordered some fabric last week online and thought it might be good for my quilt. Once I received it, however, as pretty and high quality as it was, I knew right away that I wouldn't be able to use this particular fabric to make a striped card trick block. The reason was only because the design wasn't symmetrical. My loss is your gain. I decided to cut into it anyway as a sacrificial piece.
Flowers aren't symmetrical in nature, and they most usually are not symetrical in border prints. As it should be.
In the pictures, you will see the fabric before being cut, and then examples of two HST's that were cut from it.
I like this, but it just won't work
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closer view
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2 pairs of nearly identical HST's
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Keep the border along one edge, the flowers are not going to blend nicely into each other
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The leaves are not going to blend either
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