Here are ideas for colors. Basically I was thinking of primary colors. And muslin for the background of each square.
Kites (K) -- red kite tops, various primary colors for the tails
Pinwheels (P) -- shades of blue
Stars (S) -- shades of yellow
I thought we might use fabrics from our own stashes, rather than buying any new fabric (the economy you know).
Prints or solids??? I wrestled with this one. I sort of want to use prints because I have so, so many. And if we use solids we might end up with some clashing colors. What do you think?
And for the back of each quilt we could buy one print together (along with lunch at La Madeleine next to G Street) so that from the back the quilts would look the same. The fronts would be different in subtle ways and the twins would have to figure out which belonged to whom (is that right? been away from editing for too long).
So that's a lot of questions for you Ms. S!!
Happy Halloween! Hope Dyson and Justin are a HUGE hit tonight. (If you send me a picture I'd love to post it on the blog...maybe one of those cute ones you used on the postcard.)
Pam
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Love these ideas. Yes to primary colors for the quilts and yes to prints (as long as the batik fabric can be considered "prints" [When I say batik I'm talking about the fabric we used in the Confetti quilts & also used a bit in Sarah's quilt on the borders]). About the backing--I have so much baby fabric, let me see if I have enough for 2 quilts, if not maybe we can find two we like from my stash. I love the economy-saving-using-our-own stashes idea!
PS I worked on your Round Robin today. Feels good to have a project with a deadline.
OK! Then it sounds like the next move is for me to send you the templates for the kite block (and while I'm at it I'll just make duplicates of all the templates so we'll have identical sets).
I forgot to bring up the idea of sashing between each block. Yes or no?? We could try something "bold" and put a little tiny black 1" strip around each block. It would separate them but not be too dominant. What do you think?
And I guess the logical thing is for each of us to do 4 kites, 4 pinwheels, and 4 stars. Then we can mix them up, so each quilt has 1/2 of yours and 1/2 of mine.
It's 9:45 AM on Election Day and I'm trying very, very, very hard not to be optimistic. But....
Pam
Yes to the 1" black sashing. Great idea! And yes to the breakdown of work: 4 each of each block and then we mix 'em.
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