Amber Lights - completed OBW top
04-22-2010, 05:29 AM
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Originally Posted by barnbum
Oh my, oh my, I love the soft colors!! Those quilts look like fairies came in the night to make them--like the elves did with the shoes. I am never going to watch the tute because it'll take away the magic for me. :-D
04-23-2010, 06:01 AM
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Originally Posted by barnbum
Oh my, oh my, I love the soft colors!! Those quilts look like fairies came in the night to make them--like the elves did with the shoes. I am never going to watch the tute because it'll take away the magic for me. :-D
And I know what you mean! The "magic look" is what first drew me into wanting to make one. Then while I was working on it, I went through a phase where I didn't see magic anymore... just lots of brown triangles. It's come back for me though, now I can see both - how it's made and also the magic in it. Thank you for sharing you impression, and for hte beautiful compliment!
04-23-2010, 06:04 AM
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Thank you so much everyone, for enjoying and commenting. This is such an awesome board of posters!!
Re technical bits: strips were 2.75'' if I remember correctly. Just over 250 blocks, with borders it's sort of twin size (a bit wider and shorter).
Re technical bits: strips were 2.75'' if I remember correctly. Just over 250 blocks, with borders it's sort of twin size (a bit wider and shorter).
04-23-2010, 06:15 AM
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Originally Posted by MissQuilter
How did you lay them out so they are arranged so perfectly? I have the pile of random hexagons thanks to cutebuns, but have not been brave enough to figure out how to arrange them. Yours is beautiful!
I played with the layout for quite a while (dunno about perfect... we always see our own mistakes more than anyone else I guess! :roll: ). Starting with stacks of similar-reading blocks (ie. all the orangy ones together, all the ones with lots of dark brown, all the ones with baby cheetah faces, all the ones with white highlights in them). Then laid out each group and allowed it to start sorting itself, and to start growing together with other groups as they liked.
I don't have a design wall so I laid all the stacks out on an old blanket, and every time I got tired of looking (or started putting pressure on myself thinking I had to somehow "get it right"), I rolled it up and stowed it away for a bit. While it was lying out in the open, I would walk past it and change a few blocks around every so often.
What I've learnt for myself is that there is no one "right" way; just something that "felt right" to me. If you check out the layout suggestions people were posting on cute's final thread, a lot of them contradict each other! And I'm sure each of them is right, in their own personal way.
For me it went best once I allowed myself to just play - having fun, no pressure, allowing whatever wished to happen, to happen. (Elves and fairies at work, no doubt! ;) ) Increasingly I would change blocks, and then shake my head and change them back to their old place. That's how I knew I was getting to a point
Ok this was long - hope it helps any!
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