Back in July Bonnie Hunter 
Of course there are projects I ought to be working on--projects that have due dates. I could pull fabrics for one; cut for another; piece for a third; set a fourth; and baste, quilt, and bind many others. I didn't do any of those. I am NOT doing these as leaders-and-enders--I'm just full-steam-ahead chain piecing. In the process I've used a lot of squares from the RCTQ Baseball Swap and a fair amount of that rust solid. These bow ties are 3.5" unfinished and they are sooo cute! |
| I am not going to save the cutaway corners! |
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| I've got more to go! |
Wow...you are making great progress on the bowties! They look great with the rust background.
ReplyDeleteNann, this looks great!! We had Bonnie speak at our guild meeting a couple of months ago and she was darling, but just listening to her talk about her processes was exhausting -- she's so high energy! Have fun! :)
ReplyDeleteMy bow ties have gotten set aside. I find that often I end up piecing the border as my leader and ender. I think they are eventually just going to become a project!!
ReplyDeleteI don't think I would have thought to use rust as a background but wow does it look great. I'm skipping this challenge as I used to make bow ties as leader/enders and I still have a couple of quilts worth of them hanging around the studio.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun project for leaders and enders! The rust color really sets it off! We can never have too many projects started can we?
ReplyDeleteI love the way this is going. The rust background makes the scraps sing.
ReplyDeleteThat doesn't look like a leader/ender project to me. That looks more like chain piecing. and that's just what I would do. I can't seem to do l/e but I can chain piece to beet the band. And I love your bowties, especially since rust is dark orange, the best color, IMHO. ;)
ReplyDeleteWow! That looks great! The cheddar challenge had been inspired by an antique quilt at Sister's Show in Oregon, but that quilt had all the bow ties going in one direction. I much prefer your setting!
ReplyDeleteOh Nann! You're almost as bad as Bonnie for tempting us into more projects. So far I've managed to avoid the bow-tie madness, and now your rusty ties is displayed in all it's beauty. Have you no mercy woman?!
ReplyDeleteI love that layout! The way I'm looking at it lately, working on the wrong project is better than watching tv and working on no project at all.
ReplyDeleteIf I squint when I look at it looks like a many colored maze with some dead ends, some paths crossing over and under others... it is a GREAT look and one totally unexpected from that pattern! awesome what a flip in value can do for an old favorite (I am used to seeing the ties dark and the background's light).
ReplyDeleteI love your bow ties. The rust is wonderful.
ReplyDeleteI love that you said I have stuff I should be doing. Isnt it funny how you (or rather I or may a lot of us) can get sucked into a quilting vortex.
ReplyDeleteLOVELY copper color!!! LOVE IT!
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