After some shipping and web work, I get to sew again. Time for Take Two on Thurday's quilt. Can't decide on a name for this design yet. Today's variation is made with 6 Fat Quarters. It's the same total amount of fabric as 10 Sheet Cakes, just need to calculate the numbers different. I chose the Kona Bay group because the big prints cut up with a lot of variety and look like a greater quantity of prints. I also decided to lay blocks out in a repeat order, rather than random. Random is hard to do with just 6 prints, and a little order and consistency might help tame the busy prints.
I did the usual offsetting of the rows. I wanted to vary only one thing in this Take Two. Already I have more setting ideas--tomorrow is another day.
Bare Roots---if you want to try this at home. From each Fat Quarter, carefully cut 2 8 1/2" strips, then cut them into 5 4"x 8 1/2" pieces each. This is a total of 10 pieces from each Fat, 60 total. From background spacer fabric, cut 3 8 1/2" strips, then cut them into a total of 60 1 1/2"x 8 1/2" pieces (you probably will need only 4 pieces from that 3rd strip).
Sew a spacer to the right side of each piece. Lay the blocks out 10 across by 6 down. Sew the rows. To offset the rows, cut 2 1/4" off the right side of rows 1, 3 and 5. Cut 2 1/4" off the left side of rows 2, 4 and 6. Sew the rows together to finish about 45"x 51".
On a final note, another great sunset. The smoke has died down, but it probably contributed to the color of this sunset.
Today's best....the nice little Asian variation. Variations are so much fun to play out.
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