I have been showing blocks as I finished them from a BOM being sponsored by my guild. I decided to have the center of the quilt a Feathered Star, surrounded by a Seminole border and then the outer borders made up of the blocks. I got the quilt top done today, It is around 80" square. I am considering adding a top and bottom border to just get it to a rectangular size. OR I could add a larger border just to the top like a pillow cover....hmm I kind of like that idea.




Now the problem I discovered after I had the quilt top together. This block has a big white square in the middle, but note the other blocks are more like a snowball block. Well, I made the mistake of using the white background fabric in the flying geese blocks you see in the corners. In this picture they look a little darker than white, but that is just the blue shadowing through - in real life the shadow does not show up that much. Dadgum, this was the last block I made and wouldn't you know, it would be the one I really messed up.
Hmmmmm..no way was I going to rip that out and fix it. I considered appliqueing a block over the white but that would probably be very noticeable.
My solution - just color the white with a blue crayon and then iron it to get the wax out. The background fabric is a white on white floral print, and when I colored it, the flower came through making it almost look like a printed fabric. I think it looks fine now, hopefully no one will even notice I had to color it.
3 comments:
I think it was fine the way it was. You are much too hard on yourself!
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