My house has been in chaos for the past week as some much-needed updates and repairs are underway. I still managed to find some time to sew, with an almost-complete flimsy to show for it.
I took Cynthia's (wabi-sabi quilts) advice to try using white for the side and corner triangles. I'm very pleased the results! Thank goodness for the All-In-One Quilter's Reference Tool to keep me on track for the layout and cutting sizes.
The top currently measures about 60"x76". I'd like to add a border to give it a little extra size and to help stabilize the edges. I'm envisioning a narrow framing border followed by a wider white border. I pulled a few fabrics from my stash to audition for the narrow border.
This stripe is my favorite, but I only have a scant half yard - maybe enough for a 1 1/2 inch border.
The colored dots look better in person than in the photo, but I think they get lost with all the strong colors in the blocks plus all the bright white.
I have plenty of this striped fabric, but I like it less because it has so much green. It's probably what I'll end up using, unless some other fabric jumps out of the stash and insists on being used. I have lots of fabrics that read as solids, so a calming blue or teal fabric might be a good choice. I could even use that calming fabric for the binding. Thoughts?
As I was assembling all those blocks and sashing strips and cornerstones, I needed a mindless leader-ender project to make the stitching easier. My quilt guild friend Judy came to my aid, pointing out a great stash-buster project: Twirling at the Disco. She had already started assembling components for her own version of the quilt.
