Stitches23

Beautiful top, Iceblossom. It came together really well - even all those little flying geese. You should be proud.

joe'smom

Iceblossom, your top is beautiful! You really have a knack for putting fabrics together!

JeanieG

Iceblossom - Wow, that is beautiful!

I had carpal tunnel surgery early this morning. Will be laid up for a while with my right hand all bandaged up. Dr. says I will be so happy to have this done! Hopefully his words ring true!!!

joe'smom

I wish you a quick healing, JeanieG!

Iceblossom

JeanieG, hope your healing goes well. They are generally pretty smooth these days. Do what they tell you for your aftercare! I had some carpal tunnel problems but they were minor compared to severe tendonitis in my forearms. Lucky for me, once I was diagnosed and doing what they told me, it all got better and I was able to avoid they surgery. Still 20 years later and some days/times when I feel the issues and I have some lingering grip strength issues.

I starting pairing my red/neutral squares with the 4-patches. Starting with the top border because that is the same on Bonnie's Layout and mine -- 5 squares across. Will then go down one long side, am hoping that the 4-patches will correctly march around the top, might have to fudge the 4th corner when I get to it, so while I would like to make the corners first, I'll only make the first one until I find out what happens as I march down my extra row. I feel I should be able to count or otherwise determine it all ahead of time, but I don't seem fully up to it... but I can put my pieces down and see where they land!

quiltmouse

Here is my first Old Town block

Color commentary. Greens, I think maybe I need to not use the left bottom star leg. The fabric shows over all green, but cut down is kind of of light. Ditto with top left star leg, it is more toward the mustard color of my yellows.

Your thoughts/comments? TIA

Iceblossom

@quiltmouse (hee hee, I'm using the "wesing" thing...

I really like your colors and would have loved some of your reds in my quilt. I'm unhappy with some of the pieces I had to throw in towards the end as I was running out of some and had too much of others.

I think as you put more together you won't worry too much about the cut down light showing block. With the small size of pieces in a BH quilt, I've learned to use fairly small prints or just not to worry. But yeah, when your color is supposed to be blue but the way it was cut, suddenly you have a pink square, I just toss the pink square. With this quilt one of the fabrics I was using had always been really difficult for me to use, I think it arrived in my stash when I bought some fabric from an estate sale. I didn't exactly fussy cut but I tried to eliminate the chance of a 1" red square being green instead and feel I've gotten my use out of the fabric. Another "red" was a pretty large floral when seen in whole was definitely red, but the cut size made it be all sorts of things...

Gemm

All of these quilts are amazing and impressive, especially how quickly they've come together.

Quiltmouse, I think the two star legs will be fine - if you look at the thumbnail version of your picture they both "read" dark enough to make the star stand out nicely - it's only when you are looking at it up close that you can see they are lighter. I think, as Iceblossom said, it won't be a problem in the long run. :-)

quiltmouse

@Iceblossom & @Gemm Thank you for your input. Relieved on the go ahead to use the greens, as I don't have all my HST cut and am on scraps. I did have an appropriate half yd green arrive this week. (I have to hang my head in abject shame over in the fabric moratorium later due to massive influx.) Sadly, I need to cut something like 96 more and thus the overall quilt will have way more of the new fabric than any of the others, so I really didn't want to eliminate those already cut HST. There's another green half yd, but it is a tad lighter, still olive. I may use it anyway. You know how it goes.

This quilt is an attempt to use up a pile of Connecting Threads' FQ bundles from the 2010's called Canterbury. The reds & navies. The navies are kaput, and I had to cut 8" off a solid bolt to finish up what I needed for the quilt.

One of my (not CT) reds was like one of yours Ms Ice, perfect red, but these huge 1-1/4" beige flowers all through it. I left that one out. I will have reds left over when I've finished cutting.

I have zero idea on the timeline nor source of the neutrals. There is not near enough variety in them, and have ordered in a pile of half yards from Whittles. I was trying to sew a sashing block and the few neutrals I had are distinctive enough I couldn't finish one sashing, just too many neutrals in one sash. I'm waiting for the order with baited breath so I can move forward.

Thankfully glad I've almost done in the mustards as well. I mean, it goes & you need color variety, just not my favorite color. Says I, and there it is in the two liv rm side chairs, the red couch fabric AND in the plaid curtains. hahaha

So the plan was to use up those fabrics, and I needed to order more to make the quilt? How's that work? Kinda sounds like a scam. Yea, that's the ticket. Quilting is just one big scam. I kill me, I really do.

There's this other civil war fabric basket, rejects for this quilt, which I want to use up. I may have mentioned over on the "other challenges" thread. I plan to cut em up into Jambalaya:

link to divided 9P: Jambalaya

joe'smom

quiltmouse, I love your block! I agree that those greens won't be a problem in the quilt as a whole.