16 Patch - Done!

Yesterday afternoon, during the course of a couple of not very good afternoon movies on TV, I got the binding hand-sewn down. It is now washed and dried and ready for a bed. Whose bed remains to be seen.

Table Topper

I finished quilting the 16 Patch today and now I have a mile of binding to hand sew. I hate doing black on black. You can't see what you are doing. The good thing is that nobody can see the quality of the stitching either.


Here is the craft table before.


And here it is after, with the table topper on it. I want to get some clear plastic to put over it so I won't have to wash it so often.

Pillow

I started quilting the 16 patch this afternoon. I'm doing a random loopy pattern but it doesn't show up very well in the photo.


This is the first in a series of pillows from Asian fabric from Jo-Ann fabrics. I have the second one almost done but I need a pink zipper so I'll have to go shopping tomororw.

Ready to Quilt

Here is the 16 patch with 4 inch black borders (sorry they don't show up much on the bed) all ready for backing and quilting. I have to go shopping for backing because I don't have anything that big on hand and don't feel like piecing the backing. I also have to get batting. It is big enough for a queen sized bed.

16 Patch Quilt

This morning before I went of for my weekly thrift run, I sewed the 16 Patch together. It is huge. The design wall is 8x10 and it pretty well fills it up. Therefore, I think I'll only put a black border around it. I wouldn't put a border at all except that the half pinwheels all finish with bias seams so without a border it would stretch all out of shape on the frame. I spent some time re-arranging and then re-re-aranging but finally I just gave up and sewed it together.

Lots Done Today

I thought I should make a few more pinwheels just to give them a chance and I quite liked the look of them when there were enough of them. I have to make three more and move some of them around. It's amazing how you can see value so much better on the computer than in person. I was trying to arrange them so there would be a secondary pattern but was only partly successful. I may have to make some more that turn in opposite direction or else mix them up so they look more random...
Next decision: should the setting triangles be black or the solids that are in the 16 patches? I am thinking of a narrow black border and then left-over squares from the 16 patches for another border and possibly a final black one. I don't want it to get too dark, so the inner border might just be an inch or so wide, mainly to stabilize the bias edges of the setting triangles.

Too Many Choices

Too pale?


Too boring?

I know, too dark. There is a pink and purple block to the left of the pinwheels. Are the pinweels too big? And would somebody come and make them for me. I just remembered that making them drives me crazy, especially if you want them to turn different ways.



A whole different orientation.
What do you think?

Not Sure...

I'm not sure about either of these options. The top one reads as gray from a distance, which I don't like at all. Up close it looks much better. The brown is one of the sale fabrics I bought yesterday, thinking of backings. Maybe I'll have to dye some different solids . Any ideas out there, other than, why didn't you get the fabric for the big blocks before making the 16 pacthes? Somebody suggested making big 4 patches for the middle blocks. I may try one of those as well.
I also thought of black blocks with stamping or embellishing but discarded that idea. I'd want them to stand out and they probably wouldn't against all those busy, busy 16 patches.