Last week’s prompt was simply two colors. Gail of Quilting Gail thought we needed something easy after doing curves the week before, Well I couldn’t make it work for my curved piece that I wanted to cut into a different shape, but it did prompt an idea.
Here is how the top was with two pieces of made fabric with curves waiting patiently.
I had it out all week looking at it, trying to decide how to finish off the chain pieces from the make-it-a-double block. One option that I rejected almost before thinking of it was to repeat the Double 4-Patch making squares. First that would be too much brown. Second, I didn’t have that much brown even if I had wanted to do that. I got the idea of sort of echoing the Bear Paw block. And here it is:
I did have to stretch the prompt a little because I wanted to continue alternating the two shades of brown, so I thought of it this: reads as two colors. From across the room, this does seem to be all the same dark brown. A mistake in measurement involved a little ripping, though. I’d remembered the block from before correctly as 6 inches. Instead of adding 3 inches to account for half of the four patch I added 1 inch for each. Lesson learned. Don’t count on math. Measure. I had enough blue (yes the background is blue) to make two sides of the border. My friend, who picked up the extra blue for me will be coming by tomorrow. And I think the border works.
Because the center wasn’t a corner, I couldn’t duplicate the Bear Paw exactly, but I think points works netter than the flat edge. It also seems to emphasize the quarter Bear Paw in the corner even though it points away. I like the way it seems to make a table for the Bear Paw.
So the made fabric must be patient a while longer. I do have an idea for it, but I will wait to see if Prompt 6 gives me a different idea. I’ll have a bit of catching up to do this week.
aAnd Rippin Robins letters came due. My assignment was to piece two letters and leave a lot of margin because Sharon doesn’t know how close she will be wanting her letters. She gave two sample pieced alphabets and I chose Best Day Ever from McCalls on the web. I had a little math to do to transform measurements from 11-inch letters to 3 1/2-inch letters, but it wasn’t too difficult for “O” and “E.” Sharon asked for bright pink; my pink looked a lot brighter against white and pale pint than it does against brown. She told me that the next person working on it shares the word with me, so we could coordinate. Maybe Donna will brighten it up.
I didn’t trim the last strip to size, thinking it would give Sharon a bigger scrap when she trimmed the blocks. Sharon said her project has four words and she is having each done somewhat differently. Nancy, who loves to embellish, had a great time. I don’t love it, and embellishment was optional for me. Nancy’s will stand out more if the word I work with is more plain. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
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