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Saturday 20 March 2010

Friday Night Sew-In

My Friday Night project was the broken dishes border for my Sampler of Psalms quilt. Half Square Triangles - nothing to them, or so I thought!! I needed 28 of these little blocks (6") and I made a good start on these last month. I've been adding to them over the past few weeks and last night I decided to put them all together. I'm sorry to say that some I had trimmed down to 2 and a half inches (and some I had not) so none of the strips matched another. I spent quite a lot of my evening unpicking, trimming and reassembling the blocks. Finally, I ended up with this stack of triangles.



Which when stretched out and ironed looked like this.


And when placed alongside the centre block start to look quite impressive.



All ready now for a couple of borders. The pattern suggests a navy blue inner border and then a mustard outer border. Seeing them spread out on the white lino, I'm rather tempted to put a very plain cream first border as I think it looks rather fresh.

Ros

5 comments:

  1. Beautiful!! And what a lot of work! The colors are awesome.

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  2. Rosa, I love it. Beautiful design, colors, fabrics. This is going to be a striking quilt.

    SewCalGal
    www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com

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  3. Your quilt is looking fantastic Ros. I have fizzled out I am afraid.

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  4. Hello Ros darling thanks so much for visiting my cottage and for the kind comment you left behind, much appreciated. Luv, your blog is bursting at the seams with creativity, colour and beauty. I am delighted that our blogs crossed, now I have a lovely world to visit on daily basis.

    Love & Hugs
    Duchess

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  5. Darling, I like the blue and mustard idea, even without border it looks lovely.

    Love & Hugs
    Duchess

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