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Tuesday, May 28, 2024
A Break in the Quilt Show -- More Stack and Whacks
I am continuing to find uses for all those stack and whack blocks I made before heading north. As of today, I only have one more batch untouched and the fabric to cut up some more but that may have to wait for a while. Quilt show pictures will continue tomorrow as I still have quite a few and there were so many wonderful quilts,
I have enough of this fabric to make a least two more stack and whacks and trying to decide whether I will or just use of the fabric as backing!
This was my original thought about how I would arrange these octagon stack and whacks but the finished size of each block was only about 4 1/2 inches so needed another plan.
I decided to go with blocks on point with sashing between to give it more width. I will still need borders though,
Unfortunately, I had all the sashing cut and the top assembled before I discovered this pretty awful error on the right hand side, A lot of ripping out seams and I got it straightened out today,
All fixed and corners done using the quarter square triangles that I had cut too small for the sides -- my error from a couple of days ago and finally used the faulty triangles. it definitely will need borders though to make it a decent width and that has been a conundrum,
At first I thoght i would go with the bright pink next to the green and then more white. It didn't work for me so decided to use a very narrow (1/2 in) wide pink, then a 1 in bright yellow and then will probably do white. I cut the fabric but don't add borders until I have done the quilting of the middle
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