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Thursday, February 17, 2011

February UFO Challenge Completed

It was relatively painless to get this UFO finished. The math that I had been avoiding turned out fine and it fits relatively well together. I'm not super fond of quilts that start with borders and make the center fit but I'm more comfortable with it for now and would probably tackle it again if the right pattern comes along.


Just before I attached the braids I took another look at the pattern in the book. Turns out the beginning triangles (striped) should have been on the outside edges of the quilt. I rearranged the braids but, after looking at it with the ending/leaf triangles on the outside edges for so long, quickly changed them back to what you see above. The outside edges will be trimmed when it's time to add binding - didn't want to deal with bias edges any earlier than I had to.

The basket there in the back left side was my great-grandmother's laundry basket. I really need to find a better place to keep it.

This last photo shows the colors a little more realistically.

5 comments:

BetsyE said...

Nice job! Really striking. And I love the basket... it's nice to have it out in your regular life.

Katie said...

Very pretty. I love how the braids shade into each other.

JudyCinNC said...

Very nice quilt - wonderful work. Judy C

Quilter Kathy said...

Great job! I like how the colours travel around the outside of the quilt.

Heather said...

What pretty colors you used! Love it!