April 27, 2013

Colors

Another finish on two fronts! One, this is on my Q2 Finish-A-Long list and it has also been a WIP for way to long!

When I first started quilting, I joined lots of bees and NuBees was one of the original ones.  You would request a particular color scheme and then each bee member would make 6 blocks (of their choosing) but in your color scheme.  I always chose rainbow and I did the bee for 4 or 5 months so I received a good number of blocks.

What do you do with blocks? Put them together in a quilt of course, so...this is my quilt, unoriginally called "Colors".



Some thoughts about this one:
  • Although I specified white, not all white is the same.  When you see the quilt in person the variation of shades of white are not as obvious as in the photo.
  • A couple of the blocks were too small but my quilter quilted them anyway.  This was a good lesson to me of what happens when you don't square them up and how that throws the whole thing off.  It was ugly but I'll never do it again. I even stitched the binding on thinking it wouldn't matter. It did, I took it off and added a strip before replacing.  It looks ten times better now.

  • I still don't care for sampler quilts, they look too thrown together for my liking.
  • The feeling of finishing a quilt is still good for the soul!