Tuesday, May 15, 2018

First Steps With Pink

I sewed up the first step blocks for the pink Slashed Squares quilt. There are 9 busy blocks with calm insides and 9 calm blocks with calm outsides and busy insides. I only need 8 of each, but I love having extras because sometimes blocks don't play well together and it's nice to have options.

A careful perusal of the blocks above will reveal at least two that aren't as successful as I had hoped (hey, I made these all from my stash, and even MY stash has limits!)

This one isn't working. The low intensity dark pink center makes the striped outer fabric look duller.

This center square looks terrific, but it makes you wonder which of these two is the "busy" one. Fortunately, I know it's going to work no matter what.

Yes, I'll take this block apart and replace the center square.

There's another block that fails...

It looks sorta OK like this, but find it in the top photo and you'll see that it doesn't have as much contrast as it should.

We will look at some options to fix it tomorrow.

If you are interested in making your own Slashed Squares quilt, you can get my tutorial here.



Hey, Sewgirl, thank you for your always lovely comments. May I share the story of how we met?


5 comments:

Sewgirl said...

Of course you can tell the story! It was my pleasure!

Quiltdivajulie said...

Posts lie this that share fails and fixes are SO helpful ...

Millie said...

I think Julie meant “posts like this...”

Allison said...

Otherwise she’d be accusing you of lying! But Qulitdivajulie is correct, these kinds of posts are so helpful!

Quiltdivajulie said...

That's what happens when I comment from my tablet using one-finger hunt and peck typing. SORRY!