Iceblossom

I was slow but productive yesterday at group. I finished up the Grass quilt, and started making the binding of the stripped border fabric. I love using stripes on the diagonal...

I started working on the Dragon Hoard project. I have a limited amount of the Makower yardage I want to use for sashing, limited enough that I felt a 1/2" reduction per block would help. Although the background squares the dragon blocks are printed on are consistent, the frames/dragon designs within are not! They are skewed and otherwise marginally different in size. It would have been easy to trim 1/4" off each edge, but instead, I was trimming 1/2" from the inner frame and although it started out ok, it quickly became apparent that they were not consistent or square. I decided that the visual effect of the borders within the blocks and the ones I will be inserted would still be ok if the blocks are not quite square. Anyway, I am making the setting triangles a bit large and will float the blocks within a consistent size.

So -- Picture 1 of the grass quilt finished. Is meant to be twin sized, is on top of a queen. Picture 2 is just a better shot of a side/bottom. The border cut on diagonal will be the binding. Picture 3 is an advance look at the dragon blocks. Due to the cutting and decisions I was making as I was going along, a little off in a couple of ways, like one corner will not float -- the point won't be cut off and I can live with it.

Edit: Hmmm, maybe I should trim all the points down so they have seam allowance but don't float. Will make sort of an odd size finish, right now I'm using a 10.5" ruler to square but trimming down would make it 10", so 9.5" finished? The crazy quilt blocks can be trimmed to whatever size I decide on, but the sashing will be going around the dragon blocks and not between. That is the crazy blocks will be the size of the dragon+border.