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QuiltE 12-30-2011 12:22 PM

Yippppeeeee!!!!!
You're waaaaaaaay ahead of me! Looks like you'll be done in time for the PC start!!! :)

I forget ... have you decided on cornerstones, sashing and borders yet?

Quilting Nonnie 12-30-2011 01:21 PM

I've got brown sashing. Haven't decided or border. I'm going to do a dark green back either plain or minimal pattern. I'm hand quilting and I want my quilting to show up on the back.

I'm not doing the PC. I'd like to be with the group again, but it is too much work. I got nothing done this year except for the FW. I want to work on quilts that are waiting.

QuiltE 12-30-2011 01:53 PM

Brown will be lovely!
I'm committed to the dark green sashing. Cornerstones and setting triangles are being auditioned, though I'm pretty close to the end on that. Border ... wish I had more green, though I have FavoriteFabrics (a QB poster and business) checking to see if we can come up with a match, which would make life oh so easy! :)

I totally understand your reason for not being with us in the PC. I sometimes wonder why I am doing it .... though I wish I'd been part of the FWS experience from the beginning, and am looking forward to that camaraderie with the PC! Granted, I don't have much of a life, so can probably still sneak in a few extra things. Just need to get FWS blocks done! Back to my machine .... got interrupted today with a visitor! Supper is in the oven, so can let it brew away as I stitch away!

QuiltE 01-03-2012 08:44 PM

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I have a special reward every time I finish a pair of blocks .... I get to come here and see all the pretty ones that you ladies have made, ahead of me. I seldom look at them until that point, as I try to not let what you have done influence what I do. OK, I'll confess I did look at them when QNonnie posted her pair last week .... and yet, when I went thru them now, I didn't remember a lot of them!!

Here's mine ....
#85 ... Square Dance ... this fabric reminds me oh so much of our square dance dresses and how we would trim them up, back in Jr. Farmers Days. I should have added some white lace, as we often had white eyelet aprons overtop!
and
#86 ... Squash Blossom


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Quilting Nonnie 01-03-2012 08:51 PM

Love your square dance, the flowers are beautiful. You used to square dance? I did and absolutely loved it. Unfortunately DH is not a dancin' man!

You squash blossom turned out beautifully. Wonderful piecing!

QuiltE 01-03-2012 09:06 PM

Thanks ... I wasn't in love with that floral, and kind of added it in, as it picked up so many colours. Shows how things can change when we make them up with other fabrics. Perhaps should have had a brighter burgundy as it kind of gets lost amidst the black/gold.

Oh yes ... square dancing was a very popular thing! I'd still love to do it, but there's seldom an opportunity anymore. Luckily no one sees me kick up my heels, when some good ol' country music comes on! hhmmmmmmmm we'll have to have a square dance on a Pony Club thread someday! :)

Quilting Nonnie 01-03-2012 10:48 PM

Great idea! Do-si-do. Allemande left!

oksewglad 01-17-2012 05:55 PM

Anne when I saw your square dance block come up, I thought I was viewing PC blocks (I'm multi-tasking with tabs tonight)! This block has the plain center for you all to showcase a pretty fabric. And QE if you don't care for it--maybe it will get lost in the quilt!!LOLThe squash blossom has such terrific angles--love the turquoise ones! QE are you choosing fabrics to go with that green border? I'm waiting for some hot yellow/orange lightning to show up!

QuiltE 01-17-2012 06:23 PM


Originally Posted by oksewglad (Post 4885281)
QE are you choosing fabrics to go with that green border? I'm waiting for some hot yellow/orange lightning to show up!

Ha! You were already saw that lightening strike!! :) As for the fabrics with the sashing ... that's where I started to get cold feet the other day, and wondering/worrying whether the fabric mix was still working with the green? arrgghhhhhhh!

gardnergal970 06-08-2012 02:54 PM

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oksewglad 06-08-2012 02:59 PM

Oh these two look very well together. Set apart they will bring some continuity to your colors.

gardnergal970 06-09-2012 05:19 AM

Yup...to much brown in one spot makes it dull. You can be sure I will have it on my design wall for a time to get the placement of colors more balanced.

QuiltE 06-11-2012 09:21 AM


Originally Posted by gardnergal970 (Post 5276244)
Yup...to much brown in one spot makes it dull. You can be sure I will have it on my design wall for a time to get the placement of colors more balanced.


Great mix and match prints for both ... I had mine on the design wall throughout, though didn't worry too much about placement til the end, as I knew I would keep switching as I made more. It helped though to determine what colours I was getting too much of, or what I needed more added into the mix.

And don't forget the milestone threads with the groupings ....... so we can see how they are coming together as a group, too!! :)


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