I finally started on the king-size quilt I’ve been planning since last August. After entering the quilt I made for my youngest son in the county fair, I decided my goal this year was to make a quilt that would deserve to be hung up and displayed in its entirety, instead of being folded up and hung over a railing in a nook, lost among the bulk of entries. So my husband came up with a design based on a mathematical curve, I started with one fabric I love that I’d picked up at the thrift store, and over the Christmas break I bought all the rest of the materials. (The quilt shop was having a pre-end-of-year-inventory sale, what could I do?) There was much discussion of colors and patterns while my in-laws were visiting for Christmas.
And finally, last night, I started cutting. I cut out 289 squares. (Rotary cutters rock!)
Now I have hundreds of little triangles to do. Pondering whether to cut them all at once or cut some and start sewing, cutting the rest as I go. Just to make sure the design is going to work, of course.
Claudia | 28-Mar-08 at 7:53 am | Permalink
I loved you design idea. It’s quite diferent. But why don’t you sew the squares and then cut the triagles, to speed the proceedings a bit?
Rose | 28-Mar-08 at 7:54 pm | Permalink
Thanks, Claudia! The triangles need to be sewn onto the black squares, in the corners, before I start sewing the squares together. It’s just going to be a long process, I think…