Oh, happy day! I am quilting. I started cutting this project way back in (let me look it up ) October. Then I just plain-old lost interest. Maybe it was the Christmas crafting or maybe it was my fall obsession with knitting. Either way, this quilting project has been collecting dust (quite literally) on my sewing table. Every so often I would look at it and feel a little bad for how neglected it was. Not anymore. I picked it up again because I needed a break from the hand sewing on the Alabama Stitch top. Yay, string piecing!
After I had cut nearly everything and assembled most of the base units with the half-square triangles, I began to doubt my color choice for the background solid. It’s Kona Robin’s Egg, but really it’s more turquoise than I would expect it to be. Why didn’t I just use gray? I love gray and it would have been appropriate. I think I was trying to expand my horizons. What do you think? I think I’m OK with it now, or at least, I’m proceding.
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I love the blue. Gray is safe but blue is bold and fun. I think you’ll love it when it is all said and done.
i love the blue. love it.
I’m a fan of the blue, too! So happy and sweet. I love the tulip piecing, too (and, of course, anything with shades of orange).
I like the blue… it is bright… but it’s spring-y… and really makes the tulip pop. Lovely…
The blue looks great. I can’t imagine it with gray.
How is you quilt progressing. I saw this quilt finished in a shop today and love it but they did not have the pattern so I am trying to find the book on ebay.
Would love to see your finished quilt. I am thinking of doing a white self print where you have blue. Looked fantastic in the shop.