Originally Posted by IrishMom (Post 8209572)

Found it! Here is a picture of my top from that swap. You do have more blocks -- you could always use the smaller blocks to make a baby quilt or two lap size quilts!

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Originally Posted by mjpEncinitas (Post 8211644)

[ATTACH=CONFIG]608600[/ATTACH]Thank you for all the suggestions. They sparked me to float the blocks and they look much better that way. Gave me lots of inspiration and ideas. I would’ve liked to use a soft orange sashing but what I had in my stash was the soft yellow.

It was really helpful to have a big design wall. My design wall is just some batting pinned to the wall with push pins. I put the blocks up and figured out what size sashing was needed as I went. I didn’t try to figure it out beforehand and was ok with sashing being different sizes. This made for an interesting process. At the end I was adding sashing to the top middle of the quilt.

I added several little blocks. I was going to do them in solid colors to calm it down. Then I decided that was a lost cause, so for many of them I used pattern fabrics that were special to me. I made the beach bums block to fill out the blank spot I came up with. You might have seen this pattern before, it has 5 beach buddies. I reduced the pattern by 50 % and only used three beach ladies.

Well I’m glad the top is done. I’m thinking about just binding it with the soft yellow. What do you think? I won’t get to the quilting for several months

Quilt top isn’t ironed. I’m never good taking square pictures and reducing the size but here it is.