Greens And Yellows

Greens and yellows.  My worst color area.  A reminder - I am clinically color blind - and I can't differentiate between many greens and yellows.  And golds.  So why have I been playing with them?  I  blame  thank my friend Denise!

Denise (who, ahem, needs to update her blog!) inspired me by posting a photo of the quilt found at this link to her FaceBook page.  Oooh.  Sunflowers.  Aren't they yellow?  Or gold?  And aren't their leaves green?  Yeah, whatever!  I decided I had to do some version of the quilt - and decided to go for a table runner.  And heaven forbid I should have looked at the tutorial -- I thought I'd just wing it.  I also challenged myself to use my scrap strips as much as possible.

I settled on bright greens, any neutrals, a yellow/gold marble-y looking scrap, and a mottled deep brown.  As I visually dissected the quilt photo, I saw 4-patches, 9-patches, and star points.  I started sewing and cutting and ...

9- and 4-patches made with 1.5" strips, centers and background of star points 2.5" 

Please ignore the pink stripes - that's my pressing surface.  But cool!  This could work!  Only rather than do nice, orderly "sunflowers"/stars, I decided to go wonky.  Why?  I could tell you that it's because sunflowers aren't perfect, but we all know it's because I didn't have to measure anything and it's a darn sight easier.  There.  I said it.  And it's really fun.

I realized somewhere along the line that I don't have many green scrap strips, nor do I have many yellow/gold strips.  I don't have much green, gold, or yellow fabric, actually - please see opening paragraph for a possible explanation.  This made me limit my table runner to three blocks - because I will not cut more strips for this!!!  ... unless absolutely necessary.



Once I had the blocks made and the 9-patches for the sashing all set, I pondered the sashing itself.  My initial plan was to cut solid chunks 3.5" x 6.5".  Since I don't have 3.5" scrap strips, but have an abundance of neutral 1.5" strips ... I pieced them.



I think it adds interest!



Before I knew it, I was almost there!



I think this is pretty good for someone who has been spending the mornings out in the yard with her husband and a chain saw.  Frankly, I am surprised I can still move, but that's a story for another day.

Here's the top, all pieced!



I did have to cut the green border fabric, I admit.  I thought adding little 4-patches at the corners would be fun.  Can you believe that in doing so, I actually did use up all of the green 1.5" strips?  Well, OK, the bright green ones.  But still!  Yay!

As of now, it's all sandwiched together with batting and backing:



It's in my Studio, waiting for me to do the quilting and binding.  I won't have time to work on it today, unfortunately.  The Project Manager from the remodeling crew is coming today to lay out Plan B.  Plan B involves them ripping out everything the first crew they sent did and starting over.  Uhh ... yeah.  It's that bad.

Thanks for reading!