I did the grass and stems using liberated quilting, Tonya Style, just like the letters and wonky houses I've made using her technique. I sewed green triangles to white triangles, then cut the resulting rectangles into wonky wedges. Then I sewed those wedges together, trying not to put any two blades of similar height grass close to each other, and alternating pale green with medium green. I trimmed the bottom and top flat and parallel, then machine appliqued the pinwheels onto the stems.
I ended up removing some of the background fabric on the pinwheels because the bottom fabric was white, and made the pinwheels look as if they were floating above the stems, not the effect I wanted. I also wanted them far enough away from the star blocks where they didn't touch.
This is currently 24 x 24, a nice small size for a wall hanging. Should I border it or leave it borderless? I have enough of the white background left where I could put a 1 inch white border on, then maybe bind it in scrappy strips?
5 comments:
Your center medallion is just perfect. I think a scrappy binding will be beautiful. I think white or green would be good choices for a small border.
those stems and leaves look great. I don't think it needs another border. I'd bind in a single dark fabric but I'm lazy that way and never want to piece binding ;-)
Hi Jane
This is a really lovely quilt. I love the centre pinwheel flowers and leaves. Putting a 1" strip will really make the blocks float. I love scrappy bindings, that would look great.
I love the flowers and stems/grass..very pretty,thanks for sharing,Amu
Yes it will do! I like it!
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