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50th Anniversary Wall Quilt - Part 5

Now that my practice piece is finished, I can move onto wall quilt.

I didn't want to do a huge center portrait but I didn't want something super small either. So I settled on 18x18" but the applique blocks I want to put around the center portrait, can be done in 6" or 7". The 6" block says "finishes at 7" but 7 doesn't go into 18 evenly. Starting to see the problem? Of course you are!

So that means the blocks have to either finish at 6 (which goes into 18 nicely) or I have to add a border around the portrait and end up with say 21, which 7 goes into. So I thought I'd add a mitered border (which I've never done before) around the center to add 3" making my center 21" square.

Background Squares

I also stitched out some embroidered background squares from the Feathered Star pattern, which came out really well. I stitched out 2 blocks. On the left, the thread is a very close match to the cream fabric and the one on the right is slightly more yellow making is stand out a bit. Don't know if I'll use these or not in the final wall hanging but they turned out nice.

 

Here are some of the applique blocks done in cream/tan/gold. I've officially ran out of some of these fabrics so I hope I don't have to remake any of them but I have 16 of them. I do think some of them have too much color but I'll just have to see how they look around the portrait. 






















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