Its Design Wall Monday! Off my design floor is the Twilight Hopscotch quilt. I added a full row of blocks to Kim Diehl's original layout, requiring yet more cutting and sewing sewing sewing (interspersed with a bit of ripping, boo). I'm happy to show the finished top today.
The outer border design continues the chains, which I just love. Fingers crossed that I have just enough of the star fabric to bind the quilt. The pattern, from her Simple Comforts book, called for 8 strips of binding...I have 8 1/2 strips. The top currently is roughly 62x80" so on paper it looks doable.
See more Design Walls on Judy's Small Quilts and Doll Quilts.
Daughter Erica and I went dress shopping for her brother's upcoming wedding. The wide variety of sizes in dresses between manufacturers makes for quite a guessing game amid the racks. The couple wants to wear light colors for picture taking, so that adds a focus for the search, though neither of us found a suitable option this outing. Erica has asked me to make new placemats for some time, so we went into Joann's afterwards to look at fabric. She fell in love with a precut roll's mauve print, to which we were unable to find a match in yardage. Nor was there a single bolt of fabric with that exact color in it!
We bought two jelly rolls so she can at least have one or two strips in each placemat. I looked through my fat quarters when I got home and found only ONE fabric in my stash that was complementary---the bottom one in the photo. We did find a very nice dark purple print for the binding and backing. The neverending list of things to make keeps my sewing room busy! I'm not mad :)
5 comments:
Beautiful finish on your stars top! I had seen the close-ups of that green star fabric in earlier posts and thought I must have some of it I could send if you needed it for binding, but it looks like I was wrong. I might have every other Kim Diehl green, but apparently not that one.
Maddening when you find a fabric you love and can't find things to coordinate with it. Looks like you are making it work.
Who is gonna complain about things to do in the sewing room--unless it is mending. :)
Your Twilight Hopscotch quilt is soooo pretty!
Pretty colors for the placemats! And your TH top looks so good. Sounds like you have just enough for the binding :)
Twilight Hopscotch looks great. Sorry you couldn't find a match to the one fabric, but that set is going to look great together.
Spectacular!!! Love the Twilight Hopscotch finish.
Mad? You are not mad, although a little bit of craziness keeps me sane :-)
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