Blue and green backing

This week there has been more progress on my blue and green quilt. I have sewn all the blocks together to make the quilt top. And I have also dyed some fabric for the backing. I tried out one of the methods in the book “Color by Accident” by Ann Johnston. It is a combination of blue dye followed 15 minutes later with yellow dye. Before adding the yellow dye I rearranged the fabric in the bucket so that it was scrunched in a different place. I like the effect. I had run out of lemon yellow dye and had to use my golden yellow, so the green turned out more olive than I would have liked. But in fact it goes well with the greens on the quilt top – one of those fortunate happenstances.

My original sketch had figures on the quilt top. Once I had sewn all the blocks together I began to have doubts about it. I was worried that the log cabins would get lost behind the figures. After looking at the quilt top on the design wall for a few days I returned to my original plan. The quilt just wasn’t finished. I thought maybe I could make the figures from transparant fabric. I sketched my figures on paper and cut them out and pinned them to the quilt top on the design wall.

I realised then that they weren’t going to hide so much of the log cabin blocks and decided to cut them from cotton fabric. They are now fused to the quilt top and the quilt sandwich is pinned ready to sew around the edges of the figures and do the remaining quilting.