Not only have I finished the last 5 blocks of the scrappy Civil War quilt, I've managed to put sashing on them as well (click any picture to enlarge):
I had originally wanted to use something from the Dargate Ribbons line for the sashing, but it didn't work out. I have a dark red, a medium red, a purple (identical to the dark red except for the color), and a pink. The pink was right out - the plain nine-patch squares are pink, and more pink is too much. The purple didn't contrast enough with the blocks - the whole thing just looked muddy. This was OK, because I wanted to use the reds together anyway. But when I laid it out, the two reds just didn't look good together. So I spent three days not sewing, auditioning every single fabric I had, and finally I just had enough. I liked the way the blocks looked against the dark carpet, so I just picked the darkest fabric that I had enough of and used that. The lighter brown is from the Dargate line, but it's Violet and Chocolate, not Ribbons.
As a smaller, more portable project, I've been working on these:
These are practice for the quilt in Kaffe Fassett fabrics that I still plan to make. These are half the size, though - 5" square finished, rather than 10". I'm not sure how many of these blocks I'll make, but I sure do have a lot of stripey reproduction fabrics.....
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