Saturday, December 31, 2011

Grinch: Quick Assembly Update

Well, last blog I was all excited about the framing fabric for each quilt block and went into my choices and reasoning in great detail.  This quilt is unusual for me in that I have no plan and I am just winging it as I go.  No surprise then that the assembly is not going smoothly.  Here are the framed quilt blocks all together.


I have already changed the framing on the Grinch and Cindy Lou Whoo with presents block from that multi colored mini block print to a less chaotic two tone green. I have also decided that the framing of the two yellow blocks will need to be changed as well to something of the green or red bent.

FROM TO

I wanted sashing between the blocks but did not want it to look orderly so I added some stack and whack green rectangles.  These were originally going to be catty-wampus checkerboards of red/white/green/yellow but even before assembling them, I realized the high contrast would compete for attention with the Grinch blocks.  I backed off to just shades of green.


Here is a close-up of the TOP half


And here is a close-up of the BOTTOM half


Here are some photo responses after a frantic e-mail to my daughter on Dec 4th titled "Help, the GRINCH is winning"  (Hard to believe it has been so long since I blogged-  but Christmas IS a busy time of year).  She suggested I add some red lines to draw the eye to the Grinch blocks.   I think the idea could work but I do not particularly want to cut apart seams I have already done so I have set this project aside to think on a while.

Robin's Option 1 Wonky Crosses:
Robin's Option 2 Wonky Crosses:


Stay tuned.  I may be a few weeks before this project comes off the back burner.

3 comments:

  1. Don't lose hope! Your Grinch quilt and my Christmas Traditions quilt can hang out on the back burner together. There's always next Christmas!

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  2. Oh this is lovely! I've just done similar with Lorax fabric :) your daughter sent me :)

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  3. How about red bias so you don't have to take the blocks apart?

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