Encouragement for New Hand Quilters! My VERY First Quilted Item (humiliating myself here, LOL)

[speckledhen]

You could play with that all day long, couldn't you?

 

[Hillbilly Hen]

Yes, I could! But the question is "should I?"

 

[speckledhen]

Far be it from me to stop your fun, LOL!

Piecing another similar wallhanging. Seminolewind, do you like this one so far? I may need help picking a border since I don't have anymore of that pretty dark green print I used on the first one.


Here it is, without the last border:

 

[seminolewind]

Cynthia, I trust your color choice. I loved the one you just did. (Hot pink is not a good choice, neither is lime green, LOL)

I'm sure your choice will go with the rest of the colors nicely!

Oh yea, YES I love it so far!!!!!

 

[speckledhen]

That's okay, not much hot pink or lime green in my stash anyway!

I'll have to play around with what I have in the browns and greens. If nothing suits me, I'll buy a piece somewhere that is similar to the border on the first one, if I can find one.

 

[speckledhen]

I think I may have to buy something for the final border. Nothing I have here seems to work with this like that lovely dark green print. I'm about ready to applique something over the center block because it looks too gray when I see it in the picture. In my dark house, in person, it looks more brown and goldish than grayish. I could do that, though-it would be easier than dismantling the entire thing. What I could do is quilt a design on a square with batting, then applique that onto the center afterward, so that it would actually raise up some-now there's a thought! That may be a good way to go. I'm not liking the grayish cast to that center square, though the fabric is pretty.



Here are some examples of what I do have, but I really don't like any of them for this:

 

[NanaKat]

The third choice does pull out the gold in the centr stars.

 

[seminolewind]

I think I myself would have picked out the gold one-so if you liked it too, it must be the right one!
It's stunning!

 

[NanaKat]

I posted your website to the quilters resource page:

You can thank (or blame) SpeckledHen for this wonderful playground for quilt design. She posted it on her thread on Encouraging beginning Quilters. It's not only fun, It is Addictive!

http://www.freequiltpatterns.info/custom/quilt-pattern-playground/quilt-pattern-playground.php

 

[speckledhen]

Oh, I found the PERFECT border at the quilt shop in town on their discount shelf-which is the only fabric I can buy in that place, sheesh, expensive! Here it is-the picture doesn't do it justice. It's scrumptious!