The other crumb strips are 2.5" by 8.5", paper pieced on newsprint. Bonnie Hunter showed them on her quilt cam, showed a block made out of four, and then I never heard mention of it again. I jumped on it because I can use all the tiny pieces left over on these. So, now I have these nice strips and no ideas. I don't want to set them all against each other because it would be too jumbled to the eye.
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| 6.5" Block pile all done on the Singer Treadle |
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| 2.5" x 8.5" Strips, 2 whole blocks, sewed on the treadle.Where do I go from here? |
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| This is all I have left after my crumb blocks. I don't throw anything out bigger than this. |
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| Two big blocks arranged, the quarters are 8.5" unfinished, so the big blocks will finish 16" |
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| First big block trimmed |
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| Cut with the 7" Crazy Curves template |
6 comments:
Hey Linda,
Want to drive yourself crazy? Why not lay the strips so that a same color hue lines up vertically, and the other fall where they may. It will give the appearance of stripes of color running the other way, yet still be jumbled.
Yeah, I don't know much about quilting, but I know that this is hard to do conceptually.
Love, a
So all the same color strips would be long top to bottom, and the shorter non same color ones would fill in under it? Or would the same hue ones be staggered with non same above and below? Something like a jelly roll race?
For your 2.5" x 8.5" Strips - I like them better as individual strips than as 4 strip blocks. How about something like the Aurora Aura quilt with horizontal solid color strips between the long strips and that same color for the vertical strips. You could vary the widths of the solid color strips so it wouldn't look like a grid.
What a great idea! I would have to figure out a good color, as all white or all black are too stark for me.
Or maybe something like this
http://nicolemdesign.blogspot.com/
Great site! Love her fabrics. I bought some grey fabric at the Local Quilt Shop Saturday, so maybe I could do this minus the red fabric.
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