Are these fabrics too busy...
09-28-2011, 09:54 PM
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I thought the same when I did my last quilt...it seems horrid when it was a 9 patch but once I cut them up they looked good and then once I used a solid border it archored it...yours will look great!!! Keep going
09-28-2011, 09:59 PM
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OK Do not take the pink out. Just make it and enjoy it. I do agree maybe a tone on tone sashing to calm it all down. LOL It will be a happy quilt with happy memories.
Originally Posted by orangeroom
Thanks for the comments so far. I am aware of how it will look when cut. Which is why I'm on the fence about these fabrics being together.
Three of these fabrics were given to me by my children for Mother's Day, pink floral is one of them. So, I figured I'd always wanted to do a D9...why not with my Mother's Day fabric! Um...yeah. Not superly excited about this...yet. Hopefully that will come.
I do like the idea about a solid sashing as an attempt to down play all the excitement this may create without it! Thanks!
Three of these fabrics were given to me by my children for Mother's Day, pink floral is one of them. So, I figured I'd always wanted to do a D9...why not with my Mother's Day fabric! Um...yeah. Not superly excited about this...yet. Hopefully that will come.
I do like the idea about a solid sashing as an attempt to down play all the excitement this may create without it! Thanks!
09-29-2011, 09:07 AM
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orangeroom,
I have a variant d9p (block I developed) that you could use everyother block, and your blocks would be "naturally" sashed.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-141588-1.htm
follow the tute, only using your square starter blocks, instead of the rectangles in the tute.
One point, there is one more cut & re-sew both directions, so there will be 1/2" seam allowance difference. You could either cut your d9p blocks 1/8 smaller & then trim a teeny bit when you square up, or just trim the 1/2 off at squaring up.
Oh, and I love your fabrics all together, like you have done them.
I have a variant d9p (block I developed) that you could use everyother block, and your blocks would be "naturally" sashed.
http://www.quiltingboard.com/t-141588-1.htm
follow the tute, only using your square starter blocks, instead of the rectangles in the tute.
One point, there is one more cut & re-sew both directions, so there will be 1/2" seam allowance difference. You could either cut your d9p blocks 1/8 smaller & then trim a teeny bit when you square up, or just trim the 1/2 off at squaring up.
Oh, and I love your fabrics all together, like you have done them.
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