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| One advantage of my eldest daughter now being taller than me is that she can hold up quilts! |
I kept with the skinny sashing, but needed to make the quilt top bigger, so made the border with squares of leftovers and uncut fqs from the bundle ('It's a Boy Thing' by Michael Miller).
Despite spending ages on the maths for the border squares & skinny strips, I still got it wrong, and the corners on the first attempt didn't look so good.
So I re-worked the corners, a tweek here and a tweek there, and the corners don't look so bad now.
I'm probably going to have to make a pieced back with the leftovers (groan!) before deciding how to quilt it.
Although this quilt isn't needed until September, I want to try and keep up with the others in the QAL group (some smarty pants' have already finished theirs!).
It looks lovely! I know i've said it before but i really like the colour combo!
ReplyDeleteIt is a gorgeous quilt and I love the border as it donesnt take over the design, rather it enhanced it. The tweaking worked! Personally, I like a pieced back even though they are more work! Di xo
ReplyDeleteI love it! I am going to have to work hard to catch up to you and miss smarty pants, but at least I have cut my fabrics now.
ReplyDeletegorgeous gorgeous gorgeous - i love these colors and this quilt!
ReplyDeleteThat looks so good Judith.
ReplyDeleteIt looks fabulous in all those blues. And the border is a great addition. I am just too lazy to add that to mine!
ReplyDeleteJudith It looks fantastic. I'm loving all these Stained Quilts out there. I must get on to mine.
ReplyDeleteOh yes, I like the border squares!! Going to be a great finish xxx
ReplyDeleteIt looks wonderful!! I love the borders :)
ReplyDeleteLooks wonderful! Love the squares round the outside :-)
ReplyDeleteThis is so yummy!
ReplyDeleteHeh, that title totally conjured up Bridget Jones soup in my mind there :oD
ReplyDeleteIt looks fab anyway!
Utterly fab! DOn't know how you can be thinking of letting this one go. Maybe you could sneakily use it until the September deadline- kidding!
ReplyDeleteIt's wonderful, I love the border!
ReplyDeleteOh wow it's beautiful. What a great colorway you're using :)
ReplyDeletelove how it has turned out and great idea with the border
ReplyDeleteDefinite hit there! Stained blue is great! How are you quilting it?
ReplyDeletereally nice love the colours x
ReplyDeleteIt's absolutely beautiful!
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