Cutie: your young picture looks just like you - only all grown up now. You are still young, no need to worry about that, you are younger than 2 of my kids.

All the pictures are gorgeous and each has very good ideas what color borders for them.

Mimisharon how beautiful! The borders really do bring out the depth of your deep-watery blues and the triangles floating in it. I'm loving it.

(And thank you so much for the hug, that felt good :-) ...)

mimisharon!!! WOW!!! that purple border makes the print POP :D

salmonsweet :D sometimes the "brown and boring" ones end up being the most used and loved :D

Sharon it is just lovely. I love the pruple border

mimisharon, I like the purple, It was a good accent.

Mimi it's gorgeous! I love those floating triangles, they look almost luminescent!

Thanks, I'm hoping next week to get to pinning and deciding on quilting. Sure won't be SID, to to many ditches. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Mimi could you be bothered to SID round the triangles? I think this would make them pop! Then meander over the rest, staying out of the triangles? Just an idea!

Good idea, K! I will be thinking about that hard!

Awesome idea k3n :D:D:D

mimisharon- I knew from the first time I saw your fabric that it would make up to be a rather subtle obw. I do like your lavender triangles as well as the borders you put on. Good Job!

Thanks, after I bought the book I saw where it said stripes weren't a good idea but I think mine was subtle enough to make it work. I like it better now that I have the borders on it.

I fianally got my Encore book today. I was so excited to come home and dig thru my stash for all the colors I wanted. Then I start reading the book and the directions for the cubes I want to make are not in there! :hunf: What the heck? So now I just gotta wing it. If I had known that I would have skipped the book and been done by now. :x Any body know what size to cut for the skinny cube blocks shown on page 31?

I know the ones you mean Jenell - I think there's some maths involved there! I'd GUESS that if you cut the strips for the outer pieces smaller, you'd compensate by making the inner strips the same amount bigger? Does that make sense? Or we can wait til April and hope she covers it in the new book! LOL

How frustrating! Someone made them recently...trying to remember but it's to early in the day. Sorry

I posted a link you can go to, to view fireworks quilts from '07, '08 and '09 on 'Links and Resources". Hope you enjoy them. :)

I haven't posted in a few days...been behind, but if I haven't said it yet, WOW to the new quilts that are in here! What beautiful work - love the subtleness of yours Mimisharon, really outstanding with the little triangles.

okay, I don't have the math .... I had looked at the pages, and I wouldn't bother to make the cube in the manner described, though no doubt, one would end up with fewer "orphan" blocks, though I can't even guarantee that!
Consider this! each part of the cube is actually a hexagon consisting of three colors ... so! make yourself a set of three strips that will finish up to the size hexagon you are using ... you could even oversize the outside strips to give yourself some wiggle room.
then, use the same principle for cutting the triangles out of the strip set that you used for cutting the other hexagons ... (the ones you made for the bulk of the project)
sew the triangles together that will give you the cube you desire ...
does any of that help? <wave>

I was pretty much going to do exactly that or pretty close Omak, I don't have the book was just going to go by the pictures here on the board where to put the colors etc. though there is a simple cube as well with out all the fancy, just cut 2 triangles of each of the three colors and sew them together, I know it is confusing the one block has the triangle in the middle and can't be totally striped, strip the two pieces and cut and then add the third strip down the side it is supposed to be on, when I get back today I will see if I can get some make up like I am talking about, my pieced hearts for the IRR took longer than expected, so i hope to have examples to show what I mean,

I am such a slacker! but, if it is any comfort to you, I have and am accomplishing some cool stuff here at the old bunkhouse <G>
by the way, little darlin' ... I see where your daughters come by their good looks <wave>

It is not you that is slacking it is me, really, I should have been done a bunch of stuff already that I haven't even started yet. I have so much to do, I was thinking that it would be cool and mind blowing to do a quilt out of all cubes, Maybe a wall hanging, something for people to start at,

BTW, thanks for the compliment.

With regards to the cubes, notice that the strips don't always run parallel to each other depending on which kind of cube you're making. Also, it's very important to pay close attention to your placement of light, medium and dark values, within the block and also when you place them within the quilt. You should imagine a light source coming from one side, ie top right, and orient your cubes so that the light sides are all in this direction, otherwise the 3D effect will be greatly reduced and disappointing. Also, the points really have to match exactly as they are so obvious - after all the point of them is that they stand out, right? It's worth taking extra time and care with them. :-D

Here's the link again for those who haven't seen it yet http://books.google.fr/books?id=btQ0...onders&f=false

:-D :-D :-D

It was worth all the time you put into it!!! That turned out so lovely!! I plan to make one as soon as I get caught up with current projects!!!! Smashing!!!!

Ditter

I feel pokey compared to you guys. I am still sewing the top together.

Kyia

don't feel bad Kyia I just finished sewing my block halves last night!! I still have to finish pressing the last pile and still try my layout!!!!!!

We're all still here cheering each of you on! Everyone has a different pace, the fun is seeing how each one is different.

I'm cheering for you too Kyia. Mine is finally getting sewn together. When I started to sew the strips I realized that two of the blocks were mixed up and didn't even come close to matching each other. Then got that fixed and came to another set of strips and realized that two ther blocks were sewn together inside out!!!! Where was my mind? So you see are not behing at all. LOL

I finaly got mine all sewn together, after the time I spent ripping
out the ones I had in backwards. I'm glad I have company. Going to put on the borders tomorrow

Well, and I have done some playing and I was right about the cubes, I will be starting it's own thread for them though so that they don't get lost, I have some done but need a few more to finish off what I started.

here is a preview, I finished off totally to show the effect,

Great start, but I can see that one has to be quite farsighted to keep going through the odd look of a single piece ... how intriguing! <wave>

here is some playing, I just put together a bunch of pieces and can play for hours now, well, maybe not hours, There is a limit but I want to do the simpler ones as well, we will see, and the way that I did it the math wasn't hard at all, the strips are all the same width, it is all in the arrangement, all 6 pieces are different color combinations,

well, now I am seeing the blocks/cubes better ... you play good! <wave>

it is really fun, and for these there is just two different styles of pieces.

they make me dizzy to look at! LOL

WooHoo!!! :D:D:D
Another tute/class I will be joining 8-)8-)8-)

Thanks cutebuns (((HUGS))

Tempting... :-D

I'm in! You are so so good!!

ok finally got all blocks sewn in halves now I started to work on my layout last night with DH's help and here is what I got so far. I already see some I want to move. My idea was for the black to start in one corner and work it down to the other in a diagonal type curve/swirl withthe yellow and pink blocks around it. right now the black is too bulky so I need to thin it out a bit. what do you think

Try taking the multiple rows of black down to one row from corner to corner, then fill with the black edged, then the black to white, then the black to pink on each side. Just an option that came to me while staring at it.

It's beautiful and I know you'll find a layout that pleases you. I walked by mine for four days, changing at least two every time I walked by it. I love the print.