Plugging away.

Another cold morning.  They have started carving the snow sculptures in St. Boniface so it should start to warm up now. 

On Friday I finished sewing the string blocks and pressed and cut them in half.  Yeah!  Yesterday, I finished sewing them in twos and fours so I am ready to arrange all of the blocks on my design wall and see how they look.  I am anxious now to see it put together.  I think this will be the first of all of my quilt tops to be quilted.  I haven't decided how I am going to quilt it yet.  I think because there is so much play in each block I am going to custom quilt the top.  I know I will run into trouble if I try to use a panto and I really don't have anything that would work for this quilt.  The pattern has to be curvy because there are so many angles to the blocks.  I have a bit of time to think about this.  I am really starting to like the quilt.  When Step 7 was up I was a little disappointed but once I saw my blocks with my fabric choices I felt a little better.  Then when Step 8 was revealed I was happy, the border makes the quilt.  It makes all of the colours pop.  I think I will use the constant blue fabric as my inner border strip.  I cut too many for the hsts so they are cut and ready for me. I will audition them first.

Last night, instead of putting the RRCB blocks on the design board I pulled out my bonus hsts from Carolina Christmas and finished pressing them open and then I am squaring them up.  Not all of them square up to unfinished two inches so I am squaring them to 1 7/8".  This will be fine since I am going to make a wall hanging with just those units so it doesn't matter.  I nosed around in the quilter's cache site and found a block that should work out fine.  I may make a few more units up with a different neutral for some interest.  We will see.

I can hardly wait to take the photography course so that I can upload photos of my blocks and quilts into my blog.

Happy quilting,
Lynne