I've been working on a aversion of this quilt with more contrast.
I came up with this.
It's really hard to come up with a four shade gradation of one color with the stock available at the smallest JoAnn's EVER. the light shade is a bit light when next to the white sashing and the two darker shade are a bit too close. I still think it works pretty well.
Then I decided I should try a more complicated border. I did half square triangles (HST's) for the first time. Pretty easy except for the trimming. I won't be trying those again, until I save my pennies for a lazy susan cutting mat. Now that I think about it, I have a large lazy susan on the dinning room table, maybe I should try that out.
I liked how the border plays with values in a completely different way than the center blocks. However, I think there's too much going. Next time I'm going to go with a simple piano key border.
My HST's didn't turn out too badly for my first try. bigger would be easier too. Those little HSTsuckers are only 2.5 inches on a side. The whole quilt is 45 inches on a side.
Next I'm going to try the pattern in different colors. Stay tuned.
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