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Year 40 Quilt: Block 1

12/23/2016

 
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Year 40 quilt {Sarah @BerryBarnDesigns}
One month down, eleven to go! ​Here's the first block for my Year 40 quilt I started last month. I ended up choosing Kona Thistle as the background; it's as close to a cooler light grey without being grey as I could get, and I'm satisfied with it. I originally chose Petunia, but it pulled the very warm purples too close to pink, so I shifted cooler. I still wish there was a tone just a *smidge* lighter but still purple - like that color the sky is just before sunset on a bright hazy beach day, but hey. If I want ocean-horizon-an-hour-to-dusk colors, I may just have to wait till I live near the ocean again!

In my haste to get cutting, I accidentally started trimming purple prints in both convex and concave curves, so I think I'll just go ahead and make a companion quilt while I'm at it. And since that runs the risk of my being very over curved piecing by the time next fall rolls around, I also decided to forgo my usual extreme pinning habit and try glue basting... I love it! These two projects will go a lot faster now that I'm a glue basting devotee!
But I'm having some reservations on the layout... with just the one block to look at, I'm second guessing the scrappiness of my layout. Wondering if I should make the blocks more tonal with ones that are lighter, darker, cooler, warmer print combinations? But I'm also wondering if it won't be just fine once I have a bunch of them done and laid out together. Thoughts? Anyone want to weigh in in favor of stay-the-course vs. make-them-more-uniform-within-each-block?
~ Sarah

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Lorna McMahon link
12/23/2016 11:25:11

I love the scrappy look of your first block! The glue basting does look a lot faster... Have you tried piecing without any basting? Here's a link to a great tutorial with a video by Leanne of She Can Quilt. http://www.shecanquilt.ca/2011/12/sewing-curves-is-not-hard-seriously.html

Vera
12/23/2016 12:21:58

Looking good but I have no idea about the whole thing :) I guess as long as you use the same fabrics or at least repeat some it'll be fine.

Danice link
12/23/2016 14:44:20

Very pretty quilt. I love the shades of magenta. Following you via Bloglovin' and Pinterest. Found you on Kelly's NTT link party.

Jan Ochterbeck link
12/23/2016 15:50:20

I like the scrappy look of the first block. In my experience, more scrappiness and more variety work better than less, so go for it! Happy Holidays -

Yvonne @Quilting Jetgirl link
12/23/2016 16:59:25

Have you taken the image of the block and tiled it in Microsoft Paint or something to see how the scrappy look would play out with more blocks? If not - I highly recommend giving it a try (ooo, and rotate the block so that it tricks your brain that each block is different). I'm such a visual person that things like that can help me decide. :)


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