Originally Posted by Grandma Cindy
TMF - How are you incorporating all those colors? It is beautiful but I can not imagine how you are doing it. Do you have a larger picture of what you have completed?
Here are 4 pictures to show my steps. It was really a hit and miss experiment so I could see the process, thus the contrasting prints.
I like the interplay of the fabrics together without sashing.
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I chose 8 fabrics, one square each color. Sewed 2 4-patch blocks. If you look closely, you may be able to see the cut lines in each block.
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Sewed them back together in the new configuration.
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The fun part of this design is to rotate the center section of each side after the sub-cuts have been made. (See the mosquito spray and wipies in the margin of my picture? People around here WILL put everything that leaves their hands down on my workspace!)
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Then I made 2 more identical to these, so that I'd have four, that is to say enough to make a completed, larger block. I shifted the 2 new ones around and put them under the first 2, and got this block out of it all. You have quite a number of options how to place them for effect of the prints together. NOTE: I did not actually do any shuffling of the patches. You could do some real shuffling and come up with really interesting patterns.
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