Last Monday (June 16th), I texted Julie and asked her if the Macnas rectangles were 2-1/2" x 4-1/2". I had been looking at her blog posts about her Macnas quilts. (duh)
"I am thinking of going through the big bins and cutting up those scraps into that sized pieces and making them into a bunch of semi-scrappy quilts."
As you know, I have been doing that.
A few days later I texted Julie again, "You know what would be pretty? A White Macnas. Half White with colors and... half Cream with colors. Or half of the first with WOWs."
Julie said she'd go with WOW and White with prints.
I couldn't go with either because I was still sewing up the Green Deco quilt. Before I made blocks for anything else, I had to get the green quilt off the design wall. Which I finally did.
Before I sewed up any of the rectangular pieces I needed white rectangles. So I dug out my WOW scrappy bin and cut a whole stack of rectangles from that box. I also got rid of a lot of stuff I couldn't use (like long strips less than one inch wide...)Anyway I finally grabbed some fabrics, paired them up and stuck them up on the design wall to see what it might look like.
Isn’t it interesting how some patterns look best set vertically and some horizontally? Macnas is set vertically, as are most coin quilts, but most “row” quilts are set horizontally in, well, rows but when these quilts are flipped, it changes what the eye sees. So interesting, perspective.
ReplyDeleteI think its going to turn out great! I'm working on a similar layout but I'm starting to think all my prints are looking the same lol
ReplyDeleteI am very drawn to white in quilts the last few years. This one is very happy
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