Oh, THAT Old Thing?!

Perhaps the first quilt top of 2020?

I thought I had this top nailed down. 

I mean, I had it sashed and everything – but it was “barely” couch sized.  What good would that do for anything?  My sons are 6’ 3’’ and 6’ 4’’ respectively, and The Hubster is also 6’ 3’’. A wall hanging or table topper can be fairly small and still serve a purpose.  But a quilt that is too small to cover a person, but too big to hang on the wall – what’s the point?

I had planned to add another row in width, and another in length to make it “THAT” much bigger – but as I laid it out on the floor, all bets were off.

It’s twin to full sized or NOTHING.

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National Quilting Day!

Did you get to sew today?? I only did a bit. I had one of those moments last night where a block flashed through my head, I played with it, went to sleep on it, got up this morning and EQ'd it...then thought it had to be put in fabric for me to really see. And you know what? Some things that look good in EQ just don't look as good in fabric?

I had an idea to take a split 9 patch, and color it a bit differently so that the 1/2 square triangles down the center were turned around...lights against darks, darks against lights, and instead of using all squares in the block. add some rectangles too to use some pre-cut bricks that I've got.

What I ended up with was a quilt with way too much light! I'll still put it together. My sister is due with her 2nd baby and it will work up cute for a baby quilt....but I'm back to the drawing board on how to color this better so there isn't SO much light. It really does look like there is more light than dark, and it should be completely even. Funny how those optical illusions turn out! I'm calling this one 9 patch split!

Bonnie

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