I played around with an idea for the strip that will go at the top and bottom of this quilt top. Then I took the big star blocks to the basement and pressed them and finished sewing them together into one big piece. When I brought it back upstairs I hung it a few more inches to the right so the border didn't line up. Since it was a real stretch to get it up as high as I did I decided not to take it down and move it to the left for this photo. I'm going to test a Kaffe stripe to possibly use as an insert strip before the top and bottom pieced border strips get added.
We had very light rain earlier in the day and a little heavier rain about 8 p.m. It ended up a little over a tenth of an inch by 9 p.m. When I watched the evening news they said there was heavy rain in the county south of us. We have a little more chance of rain today and tomorrow.
Here are the blue bellflowers that come up all over. This is the first one to bloom. I have been pulling them out all over and there will still be lots of them blooming...and spreading.
11 comments:
Nice. But not nice spreading bellflowers :-)
This quilt has so much movement--really nice...
Hugs, Julierose
Pretty sure those are lady bells; cute blue flower I planted over 20 years ago and now cannot get rid of. Hope you have more success than I did controlling it!
we were lucky in weather yesterday as south Arkansas had a lot of bad storms but we had very little although they had said it would be bad here too - now will be get it today and tomorrow? We have had way too much moisture this spring. Love the quilt and the colors
The quilt looks wonderful. I have that problem with plants - the ones I want to grow don't want to, and the ones that I want to leave, thrive abundantly.
The top looks so good! There are so many options for a border. I can't wait to see which direction you take. It poured here yesterday and .5" came down. That was a nice amount! Just like you, more in the forecast every day this week. I will be happy with enough so I don't have to water!
I like what you are planning for the border additions. Another beautiful quilt top in the works!
Like the border option. Will you add a small strip in between the stars and border? Hate that bellflower plant- it always invades the more tender perennials.
I'm liking this quilt, seeing so many patterns pop in and out. We barely got the driveway dampened. It's odd - I dig down in the garden bed and there's damp soil a couple of inches down, but when I go to weed the flower bed it's dry dry dry. So even more work to water, wait a bit and then dig them out.
This quilt is tantalizing each time I see it, love the diamond border you are auditioning. I agree your Kaffe insert between the quilt and border sounds perfect. Anxious to check in tomorrow.
JJM
I like the look of the beginning of the border treatment with the stars. Bellflowers just take over, I had a clump given to me and thought they looked lovely but I became so fed up with them spreading so much I eventually was able to remove them all.
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