Friday, January 18, 2013

Playing with the Jellyroll quilt top

It needs something, it's a little unbalanced......



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Could chop it up....


Jelly roll play

Could bring the triangles from those 45 degree angles back in....


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Or maybe pinwheels....


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Or butterflies.....or bows?


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So here's what I learned.....

I am driven to distraction at the grainlines on the strips, very few of them are on grain.
Pinked edges are not for me.

I am not as fast as the quilters who do this in under an hour, and definitely not the one who finished in 35 minutes (although, I'd like to see her seam allowances).

If I worked in a factory I'd starve to death.

2 comments:

Corrine said...

I really like the pin-wheel idea. I think you still have great potential here. Don't give up and may I just say no one sews slower than me!!!

ELMO said...

After I had all my triangles placed where I wanted, I was ready to take a photograph, and one triangle dropped like a leaf, sending my cat Boots in a pouncing frenzy which caused all of the others to drop. This is not a sport for cats.