Block Wednesday isn't a block this week at Main Street, it's our layout!
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The layout! fun and chunky and the border uses up scraps. But if you want a plain fabric border, or no border you can do that. Whatever suits you. Read on for more and download my layout pattern at the end of my article HIGHLIGHTED IN PINK, so keep reading
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These are the sashings for the Country Store fabric, I have a mock up next
The Inner border will be the red plaid. The border will be light dark scrappy.
Now let's take a look at cheeky.. I need your opinion!
This is what I have planned but when I put it up on the design wall…
I found 2 things about it
- I decided to go light/dark/light for the sashing on this one as I liked it better for these fabrics. You decide for your fabrics what works best.
- The roses seem WAY too strong. That is all I can focus on so……
So let's see another option for the squares
I think I like the fabric on the left better.
You have a lot of FQs in the bundle you can pick from. If there is nothing cut out of a FQ you can get all 6 squares from it. So audition for your favorite.
- For this quilt I'm using a rose print for the border, no pieced border.
- The inner border will be the red polka dot
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8/10/19 – UPDATED FULL border – Sew SIDE borders first then Top & Bottom. New Cut sizes for the borders.
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Cheeky Fabrics version:
- Cheeky Fat Quarter Bundle – 28 FQs in this bundle
- 1.5 yds of white with little red dots
- 1 yd red dots that is in the FQ bundle is now sold out. So if you want to do similar to me select another red print or just wait until you make a few blocks and decide.
- 2 yds Roses & dots to use as a full border. The quilt layout will not have a solid border but I will put a solid border on this one as I love this dot and rose print! - pick the shade you love. OR wait and see the border option. This fabric will go quickly
- ** to see ALL Cheeky Fabric
General Store Fabrics version:
- 20% off right now for the 33 piece Fat Quarter BUNDLE
- 1.5 yds of soft carnation background
- 1 yd red gingham
- 1 yd stripe
- FYI – Below is the place to share your quilt. The service I used has made a change, it will work slightly differently. We are using the same share for all the Main Street blocks
23 Responses
How wide is the sashing for Main Street? I can’t find the measurements. I like the looks of the 3 strips.
Thank you Susan
Thanks for giving us a breather from making blocks. I was on holiday last week but was more than willing to do double duty this week!
I’m going to hold off from arranging my blocks as they are stash busters and I’ve already run out of some of the fabrics from the early blocks. Better to spread them more evenly through the rows. I’ll probably do a solid outer border because all my small scraps go into my 2” checkered confetti quilt (thanks, Pat!).
I like light-dark-light for the sashing and agree that the roses are a bit too eye catching. Pat’s love of big polka dot fabric has inspired me to add one to my green quilt and it looks great in the Library Block6.
My parents were huge Library fans and were lucky enough to have a community centre style one with evening courses, craft clubs (my mum knitted granny squares for charity blankets and picked up free wool for them from the basket in the library) and baby reading groups. We would go shopping in town and “meet back at the library” in a warm, interesting and free space.
Where I live now the town library is in the cloisters of an ex monastery! It’s like a Greek Agorà with students meeting up and studying for exams, a bustling coffee shop, concerts in the quadrangle and photography and art displayed under the arches. My daughter loves the Young Adults section and it’s certainly saved me lots of money on buying new books every month! I like browsing the newspapers and the “free to a good home” shelf.
I hope u get this. Is the sashing configured in the original fabric requirements. I dont want to run out and not be able to get more of my background or sashing fabric. My background is a tone on tone. Thanks in advance.
Pat, I enjoyed your Wednesday Fireside Chat very much this week. It was fun watching you choose coordinating printed fabrics and learning about correct pinning habits, and things not to do with the pins! Also enjoyed very much learning from you details about the Baby Lock machine you were using. Loved the fabric bundle you are giving away this week – really beautiful fabric.
For me (not a seasoned, long time quilter) any small tips especially about keeping things square as you sew are really helpful.
Lynda
I am enjoying this block sewing. I plan on holding off on the border/sashing until the end. I really don’t know what option I’ll use until the blocks are completed. Thanks Pat!
I missed the first 4 blocks on Main Street. How can I get them.
Definitely option 2 on the Cheeky fabric! Looking good!
The library can be the heart of the community. It can be a building as large as the mega one in New York City (I’ve been there it’s huge) or just a small room connected to the village office. No matter it’s a place for young and old alike! Funding our public libraties very from state to state. Here in New York a portion of our school taxes go to help fund them. A dear friend of mine from high school is a librarian in Oregon. Part of her job has been to write grants to get funding as no taxpayer dollars go into funding them. She’s been a librarian for many a moon and among her many accomplishmrnts is that she was named Youth Librarian of the year for the entire state! Our little library here in the north country has a used book sale every summer. Great place to recycle your old books abd to pick up some cool old classics! I got a medical encyclopdeia dated 1902! Coolest thing I’ve ever read! I’ll pass it on to my grand daught who just graduated from college with her BS in nursing. She plans to go on to become a Nurse Practitioner I think it should be a cool addition to her medical library! So don’t think the library is a dying institution what with the internet and all. No it’s a gathering place for the entier community where yiu can talk facebto face and hold a real book in your hands!
opt #2
opt #1
you need something calm in the corner stones. then they will play second fiddle to the beautiful blocks. I agree that #2 is better. it leads your eye to the block instead of to itself.
I agree…roses are overwhelming. Like the sashing though!
Since you’re going with a low contrast, blended look in your Cheeky version, the piece on the fabric on he left blends better. I think if you used the one on the right, it would draw your eyes to them first & im not sure that’s what you’re goin for.
Also, my 2:13pm post should have stated “I could find NO new…”. Sorry.
I like the sashing. I think I am going to wait till the end to decide on sashing print. I’m thinking the red floral which will be my border. I also think the rose blocks take over the quilt. The lower profile works better. Thank you so much for this sew along I am loving it!
Looks great! Thanks for the layout. Is there no block today? Just don’t want to miss anything but I could find a new block on FB or via email. Thanks!
I think I like the smaller print. The large rose draws your eye to it and away from the beautiful blocks.
I can’t say I dont like #1, but #2 flows better.
In quilters ‘lingo’ #2
“plays nice together”👭
I agree roses are too busy. Love the first quilt fabric. Love the red gingham sashing.
love your border fabric in #1 –
the squares “pop” to much in the others…stay with the stripped one!
will think about this today and dig thru my stash!
The one on the left. The roses would look great in hexies.
May distract from the roses in your blocks. 🙄 ( must remember to read before I post )
I prefer the fabric on the left. The roses are too busy, I think, and may from the roses your blocks.
Wow, this was a surprise, I love it!!