Working on sashing and cornerstones today--haven't decided on borders yet.

Thanks for your input. But I'm not going to take the quilt apart to add more sashing. :eek: 64" square seems to be a good size for a charity quilt. I prefer rectangular quilts, but didn't want to do any more piecing to extend it.

I like your colour choices. Controlled scappy quilts always seem so peaceful compared to full-on scrappy.

Angelia -- love your colour choices. I'll be interested in seeing the whole quilt finished.

beautiful Angelina. Wish all my points worked out so well!

CraftyJ I sent you a PM. Please respond.

Angelia- that's beautiful!

here are a few of my blocks. Will have to think about sashing now.

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Macybaby: I like the way you matched your butterflies(1/2 HST’s) with the same color family.

I have a lot of red in my 9-patches so I am putting them together in the center block. Hopefully, I will get more blocks assembled tomorrow.

Macy- love your blocks!

I’m half way done. I still can’t decidee if I’m going to sash each block or do it this way and add several borders.

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Janie, this looks great!
That large white square would look great quilted with a turquoise thread design in the center of it!

Janie, it does look neat without sashing - and does give some nice negative space for neat quilting.

I have my blocks sashed and together. I really want to put a border on it, but have no idea what . . .

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I was so unhappy with washing & tangled thread mess that I tossed this top in the closet for a while. I am assured the wonderful quilters who do the charity finishing will turn it into something nice . The deadline for contributions to Empire Guild is Saturday, so I' ll add a border and send it on its way! On to #21! Thanks, Judy!

MacyBaby - I love the way each block is a different color. I wish I made mine more controlled and made each block the same. I'm afraid the girl I made it for would have liked it better.

Janie - I love your layout. Makes it look totally different than with sashing.

I want to put another border on mine but have to decide what to do.

Macy, I loved how yours has turned out. I would be hard to border that unless you did a few smaller borders in colorways like maybe greens/yellows then oranges/red then blues/purples or something like that. Either that or find a very multicolored print.
Janie, personally I would stash it but that’s because I like my stars to show, but that’s just me. Judy’s right that those white spots would make a nice place for some focused quilting.
I’ve hit a bit of a lull. My stomach is acting up bad again so I’ve been in bed doing nothing for 2 days. After having been so active for the last several weeks it’s really hard to have to slow down. Prayers would be nice for guidance for my Dr to help me get my gut worked out.
Julz

All these quilts are looking amazing and so different! Saying a prayer for you Crafty.

This looks great, Janie. I like the secondary design that emerges. Very pretty.

Leslie

Thanks all for your comments. I liked the idea of the negative space for fmq but I don’t like how the stars get lost. I think I’m going to use sashing.


Im leaning toward the dark coral.

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Yep I like it better with the sashing and you see the stars better. I like the green best though the coral is very nice too.

Love the coral JanieW, it's funny I'm usually a green girl but the coral seems to pop the tiny flower colors.

Macy baby, that's a great idea about a color around each star. I may have to borrow that one.

I know I want sashing, I tried sewing my totally scrappy together without and totally lost the stars. So sashing it is. So far, no one fabric has shown up to be the one. Maybe it's off to the fabric shop. I like the strippy look but like the solid sashing better.

Janie - I love the red! It make it all pop.

I am thinking of doing a pieced border using neutrals and colors for scrappy stars. I didn't mean to have my stars in a color family - it just worked out that I had enough because of the scraps I used for it.

This is the quilt that generated the scraps. I did not repeat any fabrics, so I had a lot of triangles left over.

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I think the coral best also JanieW.
I'm sorry to hear of you being ill. Saying a prayer for you Crafty

I've just finished mystery #20 and really like this pattern, but as you can see I still am having trouble with wavy borders and not sure of what the cause would be....I measure 3 places and pin in several places. Perhaps I am stretching my tape measure or something. Anyway, here are pictures of both #19 that was recently finished and #20. In the end, they were both quilted with diagonal lines and will be Christmas presents.
This is the best part....seeing all the finishes and the variations. There are so many beautiful colors and quilts. Janie, I like the green sashes best, but both look great.

Love the larger size Carol in WI, I may have to add a few. Here is mine so far, I used neutral sashing and bright cornerstones. To increase the size, I may do a scrappy 2 inch border then a checkerboard pattern all the way around in 2 inch squares. Keeping it all on the 2 scale. [ATTACH=CONFIG]603524[/ATTACH]

Toverly I love all the patterns you created by using neutral sashing and bright cornerstones.

Janie did you try black or dark gray sashing? But if it is between the two you posted, I vote green. But maybe a darker green?

Toverly this looks great!

Wow, you guys...what beautiful results everyone has shown.

I did mine with yardage instead of scrappy and it doesn't look great because of the fabrics I chose.

You could say my Mystery Train Ride "jumped the tracks".

I'm going to save it, but I don't think it will ever look anything like the beautiful design Judy set us out to make.

Oh, well...it's a mystery, right? :D

Watson

Ditto what Watson said. Mine looks washed out. I'm so disappointed with my fabric choices!

More beautiful blocks and tops. I have about 1/2 of the blocks made. I think my sewing mojo is coming back. :).

Craftyjulz: Sending a prayer your way.

I love your layout and controlled colour stars. It looks really classy. Just curious -- is the triangle quilt Aloho ripple by Andrea Smith? I'm still working on mine.

I'm loving what I'm seeing!
Julz- hope you feel better soon.

Carol and Toverly -- fantastic finishes. Some people seem to have an innate sense of colour, even on scrappies. Both of you are in that category.

Angelia, Carol, Macybaby, and Toverly and Belfry,

your quilts are gorgeous ! I love how bright and cheery they all are. Great fabric choices.

I’m still on the fence for my sashing. I’m not in love with either of my choices. I’m suffering from analysis paralysis.


Judy, my husband suggested navy as the background in the floral is navy. The problem is I don’t have navy and I’m on a self imposed moratorium! My enabler husband is trying to get me to fall off the wagon. I tried the tone on tone white after seeing Toverly’s but it didn’t look as good as hers. Something will strike me, I’m sure.

Janie, your quilt is beautiful and I have to say that I vote with your husband - navy would look great. Count it as an early Christmas present to yourself:).

Janie, if your husband says you need to buy more fabric I say you should "obey" him! :D

Ha ha, Susie. I haven’t obeyed him in 46 years so I’m not going to start now! However I need to go out to get some milk so I may have to stop at the fabric store which is nearby the grocery store. ��

That makes 2 of us! :D

JanieW, I like a previous suggestion to quilt in the "white square" and I also like your husband's suggestion of navy shashing. Take some of the blocks to your LQS and lay them on navy fabric. Not sure what I would do if it were my quilt. Whatever your decision it will be beautiful. Hope you post a photo of your completed quilt.

My quilt shop has a small shelf of candy so we have "groceries" when we come home.

Good one Judy. The thing is to let them think they are boss,not let them be boss. After 42 years I learned a few things to. I did get 5 blocks done today and had to make more 4 patches as I decided to make it bigger than a baby size. I really like this pattern.