No. 15

No. 15

49" x  29.5" 

Design.

This one had a number of design temptations.

It was originally designed in my sketchbook to look like this:

It was a white background variation of No. 6:

But after the blocks were stitched, I decide to play with the layout because I had another idea:

I had a hard time deciding which one I liked better, but ultimately went with the second version.

Making it:

I can do the math to get the right sized white pieces to construct this, but, I fail on sewing accurately enough for the math to work. So this time, I decided to measure as I went along. It worked much better!

After constructing all the blue arches/bridges/hurdles I played with putting a large or small white border on top. In my mind I envisioned a really large blank white canvas above the blues.

So I placed some fabric behind the piece and looked at it. Then I tried a smaller border on top. 

After looking at these, I didn't really like either one, so I opted to just truncate the top with the last blue section. It is funny to me that sometimes what I think will look good, does not. 

Quilting closeup: