Originally Posted by fireworkslover
I've seen similar patterns before and wondered how they fit together. I looked at your blog and saw how it happens. Thanks for the explanation. I made Karen K. Stone's 'Cinco de Mayo' pattern, which is similar to this but is square blocks. All the parts were hand drawn on tracing paper. I found it tears off easier than other paper. My quilt is 5 blocks X 6 blocks (each block about 11" square). My color palette is very different than Karen's tho.
Did you stay with the main color palette or change lots of areas? Did you make up a colored map to know what yours will look like before beginning the piecing of the sections? Is it difficult to sew the curved shapes together, some of those curves look kind of tight?
I didn't do a color map, I never do. I can see it in my mind. What I do is pull a color palette of fabrics, between three to seven colorways. This way, anything I do, will be fine. I use my color wheel a lot.
Depending on the design, I will eighter pick a palette or just do light and dark. In the light and dark palette, I use anything and don't worry about color at all. My Kaleidoscope is a good example (my blog).
The curves are not as difficult as they look and are not really tight. As long as that 1/4 inch seam is added. Curves are sewed up to a point of 1 or 2 (instructions) and every piece is maked and numbered. She did an excellent job with the pattern.
I don't bother with the markings as I refer to the map and place the next piece on it and mark with a pin and sew away. It has not given me one bit of trouble yet. Except!!!
Yesterday I was working on the C section and got ahead of the instructions (I thought I was so smart) and had to rip, hahahahah. My advice for this pattern, is to read the instruction line by line as you are working and before going to the next step.