Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Halfway to My Rocking Chair

Seems like I've spent most of this year finishing up UFOs.   I had a pile of blocks I started at a quilt retreat earlier this year.  Rather than making them into a quilt, I'm using them to cover the cushions on my rocking chair.  I've been slowly working on this project since the end of July, and I'm finally halfway done.

 I made six different panels, so I could mix and match the back, seat, and footstool from both sides of the cushions.


This is going to be on the back cushion of Side A.  These are the "garland" blocks from Elizabeth Hartman's Glam Garlands pattern in "Modern Patchwork".  There are supposed to be three colorways, but I only made pink and aqua before I pooped out.




To stretch the pink and aqua blocks across all three cushions on Side A, and to provide some diversity, I used some filler.  This is going to be the seat on Side A - you can see I added a central column of squares.



 
This is for Side A's footstool - squares mixed into the garland columns.




This will be the back cushion on Side B.  I was originally going to use the citron fabric I showed as ingredient three in My Next Project, but that wouldn't have worked with my new plan of mixing and matching the two sides of the cushions.  (That citron was supposed to be the third colorway of garlands if I was going to make the big quilt like in the book.)

I made some garlands for Side A out of the center fabric panel, so that will help tie the two sides together.  I wanted similar colors, but no garlands on Side B.  Plus by this time I was getting a little tired of the project, so I used some large blocks and strips.




This is for Side B's seat.




This is going on the footstool on Side B.



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