The Arc

It's a really cool thing when something turns out the way you envisioned it in your head.

The next trick is to put all the elements together in a way that makes sense.

Getting Out of the Box

Here's how the wedges and the bright OUT OF THE BOX letters are fitting together. I am really happy about this (as you can imagine.)

Queenie, I am SO happy you got a kick out of the title of yesterday's blog post. I was wondering if anybody would "get it."

Wedgies!

OK, so here's how I made the strips for the wedges. I sewed strips together - background cream, white, silver, cream.  Then I cut them at an extreme angle using a template I made. Then I did the same thing for the other side. There are 11 lefts, 11 rights.  After that I sewed the pairs together to get the chevrons you saw yesterday.

So how am I using them?  I thought you'd never ask. Here are a couple of clues.

 Yes, that's a 10-degree wedge ruler, and the extension, from www.phillipsfiberart.com.  I'd seen it hanging at my lqs and thought it looked cool. I wanted to play with it, but wasn't interested in doing anything "normal" with it. Finally I bought it so I could experiment with it. As soon as I got it home I realized it would be very useful in assembling the colored arc of letters above the black box. 

That's enough for today.  More later!

10 Degree Wedges

Here are some of the ten degree wedges I will be using in the Black Box quilt.  I've been more than a little bit intimidated about exactly how they'll connect to the other elements in the quilt.

I'm not worried about them design-wise, but the technical aspects of joining these very narrow, bias-edged strips to the other elements have me working very slowly and very carefully.