Thursday, June 13, 2019

Bow Ties...... take 2!

Stubborn quilt.... was insisting it was not 'done' yet. So... I added a little blue border and then used up pretty much all of the red star print with a 2.5 strip.  I was debating a darker yellow... but tried it out and it is big enough for a 'snuggle' quilt as is. I am estimating it is about 46x54 right now... and I'll pull some flannel for the backing and use the yellow as binding.  It is a drastic change between the 2 photo's!



These bow ties were started a year or two ago with that challenge - one color a month for 10 months. This batch has red, orange, yellow, pink, green, aqua, light blue, dark blue, purple and black. There is one of each of those color ways in each set of the 2 rows (10 blocks every 2 rows)... which is how I spread out my colors when I lay things out on the floor. Then it is moving things around within those 2 rows for lights, medium and darks to try and get it how I think it looks good.


I know Mom.... I do need to trim and finish up Sally's quilt.... which I will just bring with me next month! Maybe Sunday will be that task =) I am debating on big stitch hand quilting it or machine quilting it.......

Linking this one up to the RSC on Saturday.

11 comments:

QUILTING IS BLISSFUL, DI said...

I love anything done with bow ties--
and that is one very pretty quilt top now--
great borders--
Isn't it funny how quilts can talk to us--sometimes they are down right 'bossy' too!!!
luv, di

Karen - Quilts...etc. said...

I love the border - it really adds to it

Ray and Jeanne said...

Isn't it amazing what borders add? Love your choice of colors. Can't wait to see the yellow as binding. ~Jeanne

a good yarn said...

Even better!!

Chopin - A Passionate Quilter said...

Looks absolutely perfect Deb! I like it and I think the borders made the quilt.

LIttle Penguin Quilts said...

That looks great! Amazing what a difference those borders make!

The Joyful Quilter said...

If you wanted a smaller quilt with a similar impact, you could have chosen to do a faux-piped binding (or a real one!) Either of those techniques would have provided room to use the dark BLUE and red together without growing the quilt. Just something to thing about for some other quilt that happens to suggest that it needs MORE!

Jenny said...

Love your Bow Tie quilt, I'm also making Bow Ties each month.

Susie H said...

Love seeing your Bow Tie blocks each month. The borders were good choices!

Sheila said...

Wow I love this quilt. Especially the blue and RED borders, Awesome!!!

Elizabeth V Kelbaugh said...

Great bowtie blocks and quilt.