Janet My

I'm getting things moving here in the new sewing room. Here is the 9 patch I was working on. It's still on the design wall, I have to sew on the lattice and the outside border will be the dark blue calico I used in the blocks.

What do you think I should use on the back and the binding? I don't mind piecing the backing but I don't think I have enough fabric to piece all the colors I used in the top and put them on the back. I may want to use a yellow calico or...???

SuziC

Very nice to a fellow New Yorker!!

CoyoteQuilts

Great colors. I'd go with a darker color backing instead of the yellow, but I am not a yellow person and I always think how often I would have to wash it with lighter colors :) .

Is this an EB sampler?

Mariposa

Perhaps you could use up the scraps from the top, and include other fabric in similar colors. JMHO.

Janet My

Yes it is the Eleanore Burns Pioneer Sampler... I love her stuff and how she does them. I got hooked when I use to watch her on the PBS channel ages ago.... I ROTFL when she would say "Step on the GAS!"

I did 8 of the patches over 10 years ago and I just found them when I started to get my sewing room back together again. I did another patch so I have the 9. I don't have enough fabric to do all 12... so I will settle for 9. It's a practice quilt anyway... I want to do the machine quilting on this one.

The fabric I inherited from my mother. Her stash was amazing... I'll keep you all posted as I go along.

I'm going to do a very dark Navy for the back, but will quilt it with dark blue variegated thread. (Hope it comes out OK) I decided to do the yellow on for boarder... I'm not crazy about yellow either, but it looks real good next to the dark blue calico.

Janet My

Hi Suzie.... where upstate? I'm about 65 miles north (Up the Hudson River) from NYC.

DeniseB

nice work, great blocks and i love the darker colors.

littlehud

Oh my, that is beautiful. I think yellow for the back would be pretty. Great job on your quilt.

Vanuatu Jill

Love the color combination! Please post a pic after you have the border on-Is the batting and light background fabric thick enough so the dark backing won't show thru the light background of the top?

Vanuatu Jill

I was also thinking maybe thin yellow border first, then a wider smallish blue print for the last border would look nice. I tend to think a darker final border frames the whole quilt nicely. Anyway you decide will look terrific!