The elephant was finished several days ago, but I have been busy pressing, drawing, cutting and sorting a gazillion little vintage triangles for the sashing strips. Although I had settled on the pinwheel pattern, I tried several different versions — all prints, scrappy prints & white, scrappy prints & solids — but finally decided on the prints with white, but with each pinwheel having it’s own color scheme. Because of the size of my triangles, I was forced to make the ABC blocks larger than I originally wanted — 3 pinwheels was too small, but 4 was a little big and left a lot of white around the embroidered block. I could have cut down the triangles, but they’re already pretty small. The quilt will end up a twin size rather than crib and I’ll just have to do some nice quilting in the white areas.
A very handsome E is for Elephant! The fabrics in your pinwheels are really FUN!
Martha, you have far more patience than I can imagine to draw, cut, and piece all of those teeny triangles together. I hope all the work is worth the effect, because it’s beautiful! The sashing really brings out the embroidery work. Lovely! xoxox
Love the pinwheels! Great combinations of colors!
That elephant looks either worried or mad – can’t decide which! I’m getting ready for a road trip, trying to decide if I should take the ABC’s or something with just one color to do in the car.
Love your sashing. I’m kind of worried about how to do mine!
Karen