I am way ahead of the game, finished all the blocks.
I don’t know what I’m doing ‘wrong’, mine come out wonky. Then I see someone else post, and their feathers are straight, they have a large portion of quill showing. Oh well, I guess that when working with curves the results will differ greatly.
At least I’m having fun.
Some things got easier with practice, like the mirror imaging on the pineapples.
Look! I put butterflies on the butterfly! Two small and…
… and one large.
The poppies got all wonky, but then when do two flowers ever looks exactly alike?
Finally the antlers.
So now it’s time to put this together. I made the crazy decision to border each section with a quarter inch border in red.
It’s that small detail that will set my quilt apart. Now comes the hard part, by doing so I have changed the size of the blocks. I don’t want to use the dimensions of the background as given. The quilt will be too large. I also don’t want to just shrink the background down to fit the original size. So I have to work it out as I go.
The bottom row has the most pieces, so I started there. Looks like the quilt will only be a few inches wider than the original plan.
Putting together the puzzle is what I love about quilting. So the math will continue with each row. Now I have to get serious, since it has to match this foundation row.
Leah