Originally Posted by rb.
Looks great! How are you finding working with the small pieces? I just got the pattern, and will be doing it with black instead of white. I have a quilt to quilt, and a top to finish and quilt before I can move on to this one.
I thought about using black. I also thought about using all batiks and found the colors easily enough, but couldn't find enough very pale stuff that I liked for the 'white', plus I decided to use "stash". My colors are all white on color, tone on tone, except for one yellow that has teeny flowers in all the other colors so I couldn't resist.
i'm working on this quilt, and to cover my bed i have to make extra squares.. i have used 9-10 different tone on tone creams & all scraps cut into 1 inch strips...
i have found the leaders & enders (learned about those here, thank you, ladies) made a huge difference in getting those little bitty pieces thru the machine.
i only have 37 of the shoo fly blocks & 25 of the double 9 patch... i work on it for a while, put it away, get it back out...
lois @ my lqs said it's good to have a life's work. and all my girls have said this is the quilt they want when i'm gone. i did already get the batik fabric for the borders...
Can't wait to see the black!!
At first the small pieces were difficult to manage, especially the first two rows (of both the color strips and the DNP). Then I "discovered" starch and things went much smoother! So much so that I bought a gallon of MaryEllens (which I dilute!).