I'm thankful for the space to hang a design wall.
Some brainstorming on Bonnie's Old Town mystery needed to happen; and it's NOTHING against Bonnie's pattern, it's merely because of my color choices with hers. The sashing in Bonnie's reveal calls for pinks in mine....eh.... as stated on an earlier post, I'm not interested in having a quilt that reads so much 💞pink💞.
There are also a bunch of scraps set aside from the making of this quilt. The green-pink HSTs pictured lower right actually had me confused for awhile. I had forgotten they were BONUS triangles made from double-sewing units from step 5, remembering only after searching earlier posts, wondering why they weren't present in Bonnie's reveal anywhere.
A few scrap units were grabbed, trimmed, pieced... and played around with in the layout...
Hm... pink-in-green square in a square with some neutral-green-brown HST/QST star-like scrap blocks surrounding.
Or perhaps green-in-pink square in a square. This seems to keep the diagonal trend better, but those pieced 'HST/QST star blocks' seemed wrong.
A little twisting later - duh! Of course, the extension of the neutral sashing into the star block will fit better with this chosen layout.
Again, THANKFUL for the design wall space to play around with units until they decided to play nicely together.
ALSO thankful for having so many acrylic rulers to aid in design.
The Companion Angle* (by Darlene Zimmerman) joined my ranks in early 2000s for one mystery quilt or another. Some excess neutral/green 1.5" strips were cut and pieced.
The Companion Angle* (by Darlene Zimmerman) joined my ranks in early 2000s for one mystery quilt or another. Some excess neutral/green 1.5" strips were cut and pieced.
I don't recall which step of Bonnie's mystery it was when we needed some brown QST units, but I do remember grabbing the Easy Angle ruler* to trim off some brown ends before using the Companion angle ruler. The spare brown HSTs would find a use someday, I figured, rather than waste them.
The Easy Square* (by Sharon Hultgren) has been in my collection pretty much since the beginning of my quilting hobby. The already-trimmed down BONUS HSTs were trimmed up again to 1.5" for piecing into a square-in-a-square center block.
Mostly, this complete run-down is as a reminder of my design decisions.
Seeing it come together brings another level of excitement! Busy... but still very clearly showing a pattern; I'm a sucker for those diagonals!
Seeing it come together brings another level of excitement! Busy... but still very clearly showing a pattern; I'm a sucker for those diagonals!
I'm stepping away for now to de-paper the remaining blue string units for the Dawn's Early Light border.
Linking up with Small Quilts and Doll Quilts - Design Wall Monday.
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4 comments:
I love the changes you made. Bravo for using up the bonus HSTs in the same project instead of having them "hanging" around forever. Awesome job! ;^)
Your mystery quilt looks GREAT. Just great. If you don't want the border so pink, what do you think about doing the same pattern she used only in greens?
Your colors for Old Town are really pretty! So spring-y!!
Your Old Town looks great and yes, the design wall makes such an enormous difference. When I think of those first ugly flop quilts I made without a design wall, just sewing tons of blocks that in my mind's eye were going to look fabulous together, but then when it came time to sew them together in real life? Blech! ;-). Your dilemma with pink is why I enjoy watching other people participate in mystery quilts but would never make one myself (unless I cheated and didn't start until after the whole quilt was revealed). I would hate to invest so much time and materials only to end up with a quilt I didn't like. But your ideas for changing the design to control the amount of pink in your finished quilt will make your version uniquely yours. It's looking lovely up there on your design wall!
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