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charity, design wall, jelly roll, piecing, Scrap Basket Beauties,, scrap quilt · May 12, 2014

DWM: Press Forward or Turn Back?

These blocks are from the next quilt on my list from the book Scrap-Basket Beauties.  It’s called Triple Star and I was really looking forward to making it because I love star quilts and it’s different from any other star quilt I’ve made.  Unfortunately, my fabric choice didn’t work.  For these quilts, I’m only using stash fabric and I started with a jelly roll from the Meadow line by Blackbird Designs.  This fabric was hard to work with because it had a lot of lights (off-white and tan) and some mediums in blue, rose, brown and green. A light background wouldn’t work with all the light fabrics and none of the darks I tried looked good either.  I ended up using a butterscotch colored Bella solid.  It seemed to have enough contrast with both the lights and the other colors so I thought it would be okay.

After piecing a few units, I began to question whether it was going to work and asked myself if I should continue with these fabrics or use something different.  All the pieces were cut, so I pressed forward and hoped for the best.  Sadly, the further along I got, the worse these looked.  There just isn’t enough contrast to make the stars stand out.

Triple Star blocks

Oh brother—it just went from bad to worse!  When this picture popped up I see that the bottom center block is pieced wrong!!  I have 20 blocks made so after I fix the mistake, I’ll sew them together into a top.  Without a border, this will make a good size quilt for donation.  So, I’ll continue to press forward and finish it up for someone who can maybe use it to stay warm.

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Comments

  1. Ramona says

    May 12, 2014 at 6:57 am

    It’s frustrating when things don’t turn out as we imagined. The colors in your quilt are so soft and soothing. Someone will be very appreciative of your hard work.

  2. Judy D in AZ says

    May 12, 2014 at 10:08 am

    I agree with Ramona completely. Don’t be so harden yourself and enjoy the process instead. When I make a quilt for donation, it makes me feel so good to imagine how the recipient will feel.

    I, too really like star blocks. I haven’t seen one like yours with the friendship block/star center. Really nice pattern!

  3. swooze says

    May 12, 2014 at 10:44 am

    A wow sashing could help and the quilting/thread can also help it pop. Don’t give up hope yet!

  4. Susan says

    May 12, 2014 at 12:07 pm

    Someone will love the blendy look. A lot of my friends do that on purpose. I’m a contrast person myself, but there is a bit of contrast here, and the colors are soft and pleasing.

  5. Jan O says

    May 12, 2014 at 8:25 pm

    So sorry for your disappointment. I do agree with your assessment that the lack of contrast is making the blocks not work. Perhaps you can add a dark sashing between the blocks and use the result for a donation quilt.

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