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"Yellow Brick Road" is one of my all-tme faves (& my go-to) & I love, love, love pink & green so PLEASE post after you get this baby together, 'kay? Purty please???

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Feel better! Look at some quilting magazines or better yet, quilting catalogs. That'll cure what ails you! Seriously, take care!

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I just love that! Are you going to also post it on the scrappy thread? You should!

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Repeat after me... O M G!!!! That is absolutely gorgeous! I'm serious! Stunning! Spectacular!

himnherr

Thanks! The strips are 1 1/2" wide. I've never made one before but after looking at several I decided I prefer the narrower strips/logs. I have 25 blocks done and think I need 23 more. That means I passed the 1/2 way point today in our virtual quilting bee! I cut my strips lights (well, some mediums, but as long as they are lighter than the darks I think they look fine), and darks into 1 1/2" widths, but I didn't cut them to length. I just sew them on after randomly grabbing one and then cut it off when done stitching. Works for me.

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Oh please post pictures of them when you can, OK?

himnherr

Thank you! I guess I didn't realize people were still posting on that thread. I will for sure post when I finish it.

leatheflea

Thanks! Heres a close up shot. If we get any closer you'll see the mistakes...LOL

himnherr

Originally Posted by himnherr
[Here's my progress for the day. I'm really happy with how it is going together. Before I sew them together I will adjust them so there aren't matching strips too close together. But, for now the layout is to let me see the pattern. I hope you day went well.....]

Looking great!! Is it the right size now. I think the patterns created with the more blocks just looks great!!~ Rachel

No, I plan on it hanging almost to the floor on a QS bed, so I'm going to add another whole row around it. That means another 23 blocks. Before I get to crazy with it, though, I will measure again. Lol! I did get to #25 today so I passed the halfway point. It was a lot of fun thinking about all of you today while my machine was humming.

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Here's part of the Dresden Plates I've been working on (between looking & blabbing here... LOL!). My DH took this picture & it looks pretty pitiful. I didn't realize how wrinkled the background blocks had gotten -- I pulled these out from under a stack on my sewing table. Sorry. They look pretty sad but I think they'll clean up OK. I plan to put large circles over the centers. That's something I wanted to ask y'all. I made these (sewed them together, that is) back in the early 90's (1990, not 1790, you guys! Golly! LOL!) & needless to say, they don't make that kind of fabric anymore. So I don't know what to use for the centers & borders. Any suggestions? Like I said earlier, these were the last thing my Mother & I worked on the week before she died so even tho they may not look like much, they mean the world to me (& I'm keeping the quilt that they become!!!).

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