Sashing!!!!

My sister came up with what I think is the perfect sashing for my tulips! What do you think? Isn't she amazing? She found it, bought it & mailed it to me. I took the above picture and e-mailed it to her. The pattern calls for the outside border to be the same fabric as the sashing. So I had laid it out with some showing at two of the edges. That is when she told me that she thought that the border should be slightly darker. I looked all over my area and she looked all over her area & we decided that there is no such fabric! I did manage to find a blue and purple one that I liked with it in the store. When I got home & laid the whole thing out I decided it was too dark. What I am going to do is put a little quarter inch flap of it in between the garden and the border. Once I have that done, I will make the decision on what colour to bind it with. I am thinking the blue & purple, but will wait and see. I really didn't get any other sewing done this week. The end of my busy work season ends on Tuesday. I have asked if I can catch up my statutory holidays Wednesday & Thursday and go back to my usual Fridays off. At this point I think that is going to work out. I will end up with five days off in a row. I hope to catch up on my sleep and do some serious sewing! I will just have to wait & see how it works out. I hope you all have enough time to get some sewing done this week. Very soon we will all be busy with our real gardens, so I hope to have my tulip wall hanging up on my wall by them! Have a good week!

Still No Sashing

I still don't have sashing that I like for my tulips. I have taken them into two other quilt stores and was convinced that I had found something good, only to find when I got home that it wasn't right. Oh well! I did finish my project for guild. It is a mug carrier, to take my mug to guild! I am pleased with the way it turned out. I can't decide if I want to shorten the laces or not. I just tied the ends together in a single knot until I decide. Then I will trim them or not, but will finish the ends so they won't fray. Until I find some sashing for my tulips, I started sewing the sashing on my block of the month blocks from last year. This sashing I like! Do you remember these? It has been a while. They are just Thangles Buck a Block Series #8. I am pleased with the way the corner stones make a pattern with the corner triangles. The brown is just some leftovers I had from a wide backing that I used a few years ago. In case you really have forgotten here are the two borders I am going to use. I did make six extra blocks from the leftovers from the rest of the blocks. I also did the border around each square wider, as is the sashing. The borders are going to be wider as well, turning a 67" x 93" quilt into a queen size. Have a good week and I hope we all get some time to sew!

Colour Problem

I am rather out of sorts at the moment. I managed to fall and break two ribs last week. NOT TOO BRIGHT!!! Then, I am not sure if I like the sashing colour that I had picked out. I think it is too dark. That is a real problem! Maybe a close-up will help me decide. Maybe something lighter. Another close-up? How about a different colour flower? If you could picture the sashing with rail fence quilting and even some thread play on the rails it might be OK. To bad I didn't just want an OK wall hanging. Of course if done right it could be better than OK. I just can't make up my mind. I should know better than to even try when I am tired & cranky. I had better leave it for a week or so and then try again. It is just too hard to scramble around changing the background as I am not cutting any more sashing strips until I am happier with the colour. Anyway, I need to make a different project for my next guild meeting in a week and a half. We had a free motion quilting expert in to speak at our last meeting. I need to free motion quilt four 8 1/2" squares and get them sewn together and the backing on to make a finished 16" square. This is to practice free motion quilting and to have a 16" square to use in a craft at the next meeting. No, I am not putting my tulips away or I might never get them out again. I am going to let them stare at me for the next week or so & see if inspiration hits. I hope you are having better luck at whatever project you are working on. You could leave me a comment, telling me which colour you like better for the sashing! Hopefully, I will be less cranky by next week. Have a good one!