I have been working on a few quilts for the seniors in our Church for quite awhile and they are finally finished and delivered a little while ago already! The first one was for Nancy. I had been cutting my Kaffe Fassett scraps into squares for awhile and started putting them up on the wall to see what would happen.
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| Squares just placed on the wall. |
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| I ended up putting the 6" squares in the middle with darker ones in the middle and the 3" squares around it to make a border (the original pattern was 8" squares and 4" border squares). A narrow yellow strip between the large and small blocks helped the design so it didn't get 'muddy'. |
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I quilted it with a funky flower design |
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It did make a dent in my yellow scraps. I hope to make more of them using various colours. The next quilt was for Nancy's sister in law, Joanne. I had seen this panel in a quilt shop and was impressed how it looked 3D hanging up in the shop. I found this Kaffe Fassett fabric in my stash that matched it beautifully. I was inspired by a pattern called "Panel Pizzaz" by Patti Carey and inserted some tiny solid strips into the border which stretched out the fabric so it was just enough. I added a light purple solid border and added the pieced border and used the same solids to bind it.
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