Monday, October 7, 2024

dismantled

 

A couple of posts ago, this quilt came out of the UFO cupboard. It was in there because those big blue squares and that blue border weren’t “right”.

Spurred on by a recent post by Joanne at Canuck Quilter, who unpicked a quilt she wasn’t happy with, the seam ripper got a workout. 

There’s something rather unsettling about doing this to what was effectively a finished quilt top. 

I still wanted some blue in the centre though. Time to make some new blocks.

This quilt is loosely based on a design by Lissa Alexander from many years ago. The fabrics were mostly fat quarter bundles of Faye Burgos and Lecien. Now the centre looks like this.

That’s much better. Those two very dark triangles look out of place. They’ll be replaced as well.  Time to work on a new border design.