Design Wall Wednesday

Can you believe that I've completed 7 entries for our quilt show!  Last week was a quilting frenzy as all of them had to be turned in on Saturday - no exceptions.

So after that frenzy, now what shall I work on???  I know, I'll get to work on the OHO quilt I saw in a recent edition of Fons and Porter Magazine.  I kept going back to it and finally decided that if I was going to look at it that many times, it was meant to be made by me.  So, here's where I am so far.

I printed out the templates and glued them onto template plastic to cut out.  I thought I'd use my rotary cutter to cut them out, but that didn't work so well - I kept cutting into the plastic.  Once I had two blocks completed, I discovered that there was significant printer stretch, so the blocks weren't square like they need to be.  Arghhhh.  So, I added a quarter inch to the side template and moved forward.  That little bit extra will give me some room to trim when I square them up.  It's interesting how some of the blocks slant a bit, so blocking is going to be a must here.

I think I'm going to love it.  I'm using fat quarters and left over yardage from another batik quilt I made last year, just mainly pulling from my stash.  Hopefully I won't have to buy much to finish it.  I know I have enough of the background fabric - it's the other I'm a bit concerned about.  I only have about 78 more blocks to make, so back to my quilting studio.

Happy quilting.