It's all JUNE's Fault

My RR now looks like this on the design wall.



Thanks June for asking the question that prompted me to consider the possibilities and move the icicles row from round 1.  Now my L-shaped quilt is C-shaped.  I really have to get busy making strips and letters (and maybe more log cabins) and fix that ;-)

Blue & White Squares - Sophie's Round 2

Here are my borders for round 2:

I immediately thought of log cabins as a representation of squares. The large ones are 3-inches–I described the stamped foundation on my blog, here: Log Cabin Squares. For the smaller white ones, I used the same foundations, but didn't add the last round of logs. They are 2-inches. The letters in the word border are based on squares (and have quite a few squares in their construction.) The word row is approximately 4 1/2 inches tall.

Here's how the borders look, sewn in place.

The piece is still, definitely rather L-shaped. I hope to remedy that with round 3.

Because I am always curious about how big the other LibRR's are, I measured mine for you. It's approximately 26 inches tall and 28 inches wide at the bottom edge.

Like Sue R., a theme has emerged for me . . . though it may not yet be obvious to anyone else ;-)

Sophie's Triangle Round

I've added borders to the left and bottom of my center.

 

(Pay no attention to the pattern from my flannel-backed tablecloth showing through ;-)

I knew immediately I wanted to make triangle shaped icicles for round 2–the quilt insisted that I add the word icicles and that it had to be on the same border with the icicles themselves. If you look closely at the letters, you'll see that all but the c's are based on triangles. The large tree (made from triangles) was an easy choice.  I made it much larger than the existing trees in an attempt to create a little perspective in my snowy landscape.

I didn't find a rule that said the borders actually had to fit the sides of the quilt-in-progress, so I figured it was OK to be liberated and leave it hanging off the edge.  I'll have to deal with it eventually, but for now, my quilt is L-shaped ;-)

My fabric choices were meant to add some print and texture to the work-in-progress while continuing the graphic, simple blue and white center.

Jumping in ... Sophie's Center

Inspiration struck and I am jumping in ... and hoping to catch up before the next clue. I'm starting with this–something I pieced improvisationally so long ago it's embarrassing.

I have some ideas for triangles and squares–we'll see how well they work when they move out of my head and into cloth.

You can read the history of this re-purposed UFO on my Sophie Junction blog here: When a Project wants to be something ELSE.

I also blog patterns for quilt blocks and projects here: Free Patterns from Sophie Junction and lead a group of almost 100 quilters in a monthly Block Lotto.