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| The start of Good Fortune! |
The final reveal came out, and I put together two blocks just to see what they looked like. Then I packed up the rest of the pieces to take along on our ice fishing trip this weekend. Yes, the sewing machine will be coming along!
I've made a couple small adjustments to the instructions. In my stash was a nice rich gold fabric with orange/peach roses. I love it, and it's been in the stash way too long! So, instead of string piecing orange - which I have almost nothing of in my stash- I went with the gold as a solid piece.
My other time-saving change was making most of the blue half-square triangles by the Magic 8 method. I don't think you can see it, but the lower left blue HST is actually a pieced cut-off from my On Ringo Lake border. There are going to be about a dozen of those sprinkled through the quilt.
And, for the sake of just getting this one done, I'll probably use yardage pieces instead of the string-pieced neutrals in the border. Most of my narrow neutral strings have been used up in recent leader-ender projects anyway.
This quilt will finish smaller than queen size, so I might add another solid border of the gold to make it a more usable size for our family. One step at a time.
It looks like this is my 400th blog post! That's a great milestone to start off a New Year. Thank you for stopping in and quilting awhile with me.
Linking up with Quiltville to share my progress at : https://quiltville.blogspot.com/2019/01/mystery-monday-link-up-reveal.html
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