Pattern Modification

Friday, May 30th, 2008

I’m still plugging away at making the Round 2 Navajo squares. At the same time, I’ve been making some modifications to my design.

Click to enlarge My original pattern called for a 3-inch sash border after the Round 2 Navajo squares. I realized this created a problem for my final round of 9-inch squares. The horizontal rows for the final round were made up of squares a different size than the vertical rows for the round. Since I plan to paper-piece this round, it resulted in two different patterns for the round. I realized I needed to increase the sash border to 6 inches and reduce the final round squares to 6 inches to accomodate using 1 pattern for the final round. The result being all the squares are identical in size…6 x 6 inch squares.
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Once I increased the sash size to 6 inches, I decided that a solid brown sash was too much for the overall look of the quilt. So I divided that round into 2 sections. The first is 4 inches wide with a series of big and little diamonds. The second is 2 inches wide with 1/2 inch strips of cream surrounding 1 inch of the blue fabric.

The overall size of the quilt remains the same. And I like the additional interest of the diamond borders between the two square rounds. The blue sash border breaks up the predominant browns on the outer edges of the quilt nicely.


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Linda has been designing and maintaining websites since 2000 when she and her husband started their first family website. As Ron's MS progressed, he stepped back from web design and maintenance and Linda took over the reins. She hasn't looked back since. Hobby Stash was born as an outlet to showcase her many hobbies including web design.

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