Missing appointments, forgetting quilt dates, remembering what I was going to do with those BOMS, these are all challenges for me. Having a Design Book helps.
Last July, I won some Blocks of the Month at guild, and I knew I wanted to combine them with my flying geese which I wouold get in October. So I laid them out on my design wall (actually a bed with a flannel sheet on it) and waited for the geese to arrive.
When they did arrive, I sorted out some specific ones to use in a sewing machine cover, and the rest I distributed within my BOM quilt blocks. The design grew naturally, and let the set stay on the design wall until my Christmas vacation, still a week away.
Now DD is coming home during the vacation, and I need to clear off the bed so she has a place to sleep. Also, it's time to figure out the additional spacer blocks I need.
So I sketched the layout into my design book. Here's how that looks. Since I'm putting the flower blocks en pointe, I sketched the rows on the diagonal. Now I see that I need a 1 inch border in the center spacers, and 4 inch blocks for the other spacers.
Now to clean off the bed and make up the room nicely for my beloved visitor.
2 comments:
How pretty! I can't wait to see the finished project!
I love the flower blocks, just what I have been looking for, for my butterfly quilt.
This quilt is going to be beautiful.
Alda, Fl
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