No nerdy tutorial today as I’ve had a day of cutting fabric and playing with hexagons, squares and triangles!
I started piecing with gingham for Katy@ ImAGingerMonkey’s Spring Carnival a while ago and I’d decided that I was going to applique them onto individual blocks of some beautiful heavy dark grey linen, to allow me to treat it more like a sampler quilt.
I’d like to do a wholecloth applique, but I’ve read so many posts in the past from people saying in retrospect that they wish they’d pieced in blocks, that I’m as yet undecided.
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I thought I’d try using the negative space of the grey a little more …
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Then Lynne@Lily'sQuilts just posted about one of her annual summer epp projects – a kind of mutant spring carnival block – The Georgetown Carnival …
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So, I just had a little jigsaw play with what I had already basted … I think it’s a wondrous good idea … and with some careful fabric planning could be just delicious! Yay! I’m thinking a mahusive, many-rowed centre piece could look pretty funky too ...
What is it about the summer that makes us all rush to the EPP? What have you got planned?