Random placement of fabric: it's an interesting concept.
Lots of quilt patterns call for arranging fabrics randomly: all sorts of scrap quilts, charm quilts, and many other multi-fabric designs. Have you ever made one of these?
If so, tell the truth ... how truly "random" were you? I want to know, because I'm trying to assess my level of obsession.
I simply can NOT bring myself to arrange my quilt patches randomly. Casually, yes. Randomly, never. I might start by tossing all my patches up on the design board, willy-nilly. But then I spend HOURS carefully re-arranging them, seeking some elusive perfection in balance of color, value and texture. Should I seek professional help?
This obsessive tendency really gave me fits with all those randomly-colored bias squares. There were 800 of them! OK, really only 720, after pulling out the corner triangles, then only 640 after pulling out the red ones for the center blocks. That's still a LOT of possible juxtapositions to consider.
Sewn together into left and right-handed pairs, there are 160 pairs of each persuasion (left & right, that is). These now get combined into little 4-pair stacks of lefties and righties. That will be 2 lefties and 2 righties for each of my 20 blocks, for a total of 80 stacks.
To be continued .....
Lots of quilt patterns call for arranging fabrics randomly: all sorts of scrap quilts, charm quilts, and many other multi-fabric designs. Have you ever made one of these?
If so, tell the truth ... how truly "random" were you? I want to know, because I'm trying to assess my level of obsession.
I simply can NOT bring myself to arrange my quilt patches randomly. Casually, yes. Randomly, never. I might start by tossing all my patches up on the design board, willy-nilly. But then I spend HOURS carefully re-arranging them, seeking some elusive perfection in balance of color, value and texture. Should I seek professional help?
This obsessive tendency really gave me fits with all those randomly-colored bias squares. There were 800 of them! OK, really only 720, after pulling out the corner triangles, then only 640 after pulling out the red ones for the center blocks. That's still a LOT of possible juxtapositions to consider.
Sewn together into left and right-handed pairs, there are 160 pairs of each persuasion (left & right, that is). These now get combined into little 4-pair stacks of lefties and righties. That will be 2 lefties and 2 righties for each of my 20 blocks, for a total of 80 stacks.
To be continued .....
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