I'm in!
In fact, since it is already Sunday afternoon where I live, I am already sewing.....
Thank you so much Rachel for doing this. I am working on a project I started with great enthusiasm but poor preparation (nothing unusual there lol).
I saw a scrappy pattern on one of the those great online sites that has heaps, and I printed it out and, I feel sure, bookmarked it. Now I have lost the printout, AND the bookmark!
No worries, I wasnt going to copy the pattern exactly anyhow. Plus, I made it smaller (and made an error in scaling down, as I accidentally scaled down the seam allowance as well....)
I have had trouble with this one from the start- my usual problem is not understanding value well enough to have enough contrast, without making the eye jump everywhere. So I picked four colours (yellow, green, brown, pink)and then picked fabrics that were too similar in value and did heaps of cutting up and sewing, all to achieve very little by way of an obvious pattern..... so, I decided to space out the rows with plain coloured borders. This also helps disguise the fact that the measurements are not so good! (No idea how wide those borders need to be to make the thing look halfway balanced, but, at this point, am not caring much.)
Note to self: if you are doing a scrappy with a row of tumbler blocks and a double row of squares, etc, you really do need for the total width of the quilt to be evenly divisible by the size of each tumbler and each square- oopsie!!! I am beyond that point now, and it will just have to include some half sized blocks- who cares? I just want it DONE!
We are moving house and I need to tidy out my sewing room- there is no way this project is being packed up as a series of strips that are not even all the right length- out with the fabrics and more HSTs and piano keys to be added......
YAY- I am going to NAIL this thing and then I am NEVER doing a project like this again!!!!!!
I am thinking now that, since the thing is so small, I might use it as a medallion later and make a bed quilt out of it. Or not, lets see what it looks like first!
I hope some of you are up before I go to bed........