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11-20-2017, 05:56 AM
#2242
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Join Date: Jan 2016
Location: West Bend, WI
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Crispy, you are not behind! I haven't mailed mine out, yet, either. Of course I wanted to wait until closer to her b'day so she'd not be bombarded......((whistling))...yup....that's my story and I'm sticking to it!!
Mine will be out by tomorrow
Mine will be out by tomorrow
11-20-2017, 09:01 AM
#2244
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: WNC
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Yup, that's it. Thank you, WMUTeach. My notes aren't with me but I believe there will be about 850 squares in addition to the sashing and background squares for the rows that are next to the outside sashing. I do have a handful of duplicates, I'm perfectly ok with it that way. I pulled squares at random and knew about the dups but I just kept going. Stopping to rethink things can stall me so it's onwards and upwards. Going to try my sashing around the large center square next to see if the reds I have in mind will work. If not, I'll find a grey or a brown I like.
Originally Posted by WMUTeach
The link to the tutorial for the Janice Mc C's quilt ishttps://weddingdressblue.wordpress.c...-charms-quilt/ I really like this site. Every time I go there I find a new way to use small bits and pieces of fabric. I have started one of the other quilts that is massive because it was written for 2" squares and I am doing it with 2.5. But I have made a serious dent into my pile, box/bin of little treats.
11-20-2017, 02:35 PM
#2247
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Join Date: Mar 2013
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AQ, Most of those squares came from a couple of swaps which I'd separated by color a year or more back so they were all mixed up. It's "semi-controlled". I'm not sure I could ever just go for it straight out of a bag. I attempted to match a dark or medium with a lighter block. Then I combined pairs trying for dark, light, dark, light, more or less. Didn't want an obvious checkerboard effect but I did want contrast from one block to the next. I mostly achieved that. I might correct/change a few blocks, maybe not. But I didn't control it so much that a red had to be here and then a green and then a white...it's kind of how they were stacked in the pile. Hope that helps.
Originally Posted by Anoka Quilter
Janice, did you try to control it at all or did you just pick an envelope and start sewing?
11-21-2017, 08:00 AM
#2248
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Join Date: Jan 2011
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Good morning everyone. Today is cloudy and cooler than yesterday. Yesterday was 62 degrees and sunny, a great day to receive 2 more squishys. Thank-you ladies very much.
DJmat, love your wall hanging, congrates on your finish, it very pretty.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope it's filled will lots of family, friends, food and best of all Thanksgiving.
Having a quilt along sounds good to me for next year.
Nov 20, 2017 = Anoka Quilter ansd Mrshalibat. Yea. Only 8 more days.
DJmat, love your wall hanging, congrates on your finish, it very pretty.
Happy Thanksgiving everyone. I hope it's filled will lots of family, friends, food and best of all Thanksgiving.
Having a quilt along sounds good to me for next year.
Nov 20, 2017 = Anoka Quilter ansd Mrshalibat. Yea. Only 8 more days.
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