Just finished my second of three lessons on how to make a quilt. I bought a jelly roll, stitched lots of three strips together and then began cutting them into 6.5" squares. When the lady started to suggest how I put them together into larger squares it looked awful. The colours were too bright and seemed to clash rather than blend. I was well shocked. The teacher suggested we separate the larger squares with cream sashing, borders (don't know the correct term, sorry) to calm it down a bit and that if I used enough it would now turn out big enough to fit a double bed.
Anyway, after much googling at home I saw a quilt using the same colour jelly roll and it seemed to blend well together. So I unpicked all the strips and some of the squares I had cut and made and will follow the internet quilt instead (I could have cried but DH said better to unpick and make something I like rather than to keep looking at it and have my eyes scorched! However, if I copy the internet one, it won't be big enough for the bed so what do I do with it?
Thanks for bearing with me. Just feeling unconfident and mystified and I'm sure lesson three won't be long enough to cover it all.
This is the one off the net pimg-threadbias-com.s3.amazonaws.com/project_pictures/6/2/5/6051d45e0758b77f6d7c47c6a3dc98c0.JPG
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LeaveIt · 20/11/2013 23:41
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