I have sent off the quilt top with the second row all done...Finally. For the Cotton Robin. Maybe I should have opened with that. Way back when, I sent in a center block & then got someone else's, added a border, sent it on, & got another one with a first border already added. Then today, I sent it off.
Where was I? Sent off the Cotton Robin quilt, Right! I had hoped to be early, but at this point I am just happy to be on time. True confession time: when I first saw the centers there were a couple I that really inspired & one...one that scared the crap out of me. Don't get me wrong, it is lovely. Even lovelier in person actually. But this block was not in my wheelhouse; it wasn't even on the same boat. Ship. Whatever. & then it showed up in my mailbox.
Now the good news: I am not a completely incompetent piecer. I'm actually pretty good. Most of my triangles have no more & no less than three points. But more important, I like to think I also know when to spot a better one & the good news for EVERYONE is a much better piecer put round one on this very scary block & all I had to do was stay out of her way. To that end I decided to go small & simple. Real simple. Now I am worried too simple. Because this is what I do.
Several people have posted slightly altered glimpses (weird color filters, mostly) of what they have done, but just a glimpse so no one can really recognize their own center. My teaser has nothing of the center. It doesn't even show but a bit of the row that came before & certainly nothing telling.
It also DOES show some of the double-wide outer border I put on thinking it would be cut way-way down. For myself, I like to quilt off an edge that will be cut away when I can. It saves trimming all those threads & gives a nice uniform more-or-less seam free stuffing for the binding. So this teaser includes at least some of what very likely won't be there when the quilt it finished.
hmm... did I send you the first border? If so, you give me way too much credit for piecing! (I can't even remember what I did on it at this point, actually... pathetic)
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