Sashing tryouts

Er. Nope. Don't like it

Will hang up the green on the design wall for a while to see how it grows on me.

It's a beautiful green, and I did buy it for this quilt. It's a woven shot cotton, in my favourite shade of green. Oh my!

I like the cornerstone 4 patches. Let's see what develops over the next few days.

 

Gingham is trending

The blocks I am making using the vintage gingham, some from the 1950s are out again, although, really I should say they are in again. Gingham is in vogue!

 I've trashed the previous ideas I had for the Monkey Wrench blocks with a sort of colour wash, and I am back to making actual blocks with varying gingham colours in the background.

Looking for a variety of sizes in the gingham also, I am settled on this design. Time to make a few of these blocks and trial out the sashing.

But first, I think I need another can of ironing spray! The vintage ginghams really are a bit flimsy! I've used the coles brand ironing aid spray, lemon scented. It works absolutely fine.

The old fabrics have been subjected to goodness knows what, and some pieces had to be thrown away because of the mold or stains, even after washing twice. I am happy to be able to use what I can.

 

The green?

Alright. So the question is  does it look like a tree?

My thoughts are No. 😭😭

I even tried out curved trunks by using the gingham. 

It just doesn't work. 

I will keep the orange and green blocks for something else.

I need another idea.

Time to leave this on the design wall to think about it when I walk past.

 

Its a maybe

 

Well this looks like it could work, let's try to make some greens to create a tree.

Such pretty fabrics! I love greens!!

I'm spray searching the heck out of these before I cut

Mostly, because I had to wash the vintage fabric which made it too soft. So it was sprayed, and I kept it consistent

I also loved working with highly starched fabric for the 100 modern quilt block quilt I made recently

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Orange Tulas

I've made some blocks for the Monkey Wrench quilt (do you remember? It's vintage gingham with Tula Pink fabrics.

Then added a few more Tula pieces to the mix. I'd like to create some more key wrench blocks to create a colourwashed tree trunk or sun....

This could really work.

I feel I need to make more to really see whether it will work. Let's give it a crack.