It looks wonderful, Geneva! Have a safe trip.

Hi there, Getting ready to head out to Australia and wanted to show you what I've accomplished so far. I wanted this to be a green quilt so I thought I'd use some of my greens for the little border. I haven't put the 2nd 1/4" border on yet until I decide the background for the lattice border. I'll be eager to see what you all do this month! Take care, geneva

Thanks for pointing that out, Tammy. I didn't do the slat border, so I didn't check that info.

Just another note on the slat border :

If you have your fabrics cut out at the 10" x10" that the fabric requirement sheet calls for (don't ask me why I did that), and you cut out your 1 3/8 strips from that (1 3/8 x 10") you will only need to make 2 strips sets, not the 3 the instructions call for

Thanks for your reply Margo...now I can proceed "full speed ahead".

MadisonMtn wrote:
Diane, my instructions were written specifically for the Beloved Beauties kits. You can use the pre-cut instructions for specific parts of the quilt as noted, but the colors will NOT be directly interchangeable with the ones for the other kit. If you need to pre-cut your fabrics, just read what they are destined for to decide what fabrics you want to use. And interesting looking quilts are what we are after!!!

(The differences are because I tried to use all of the striped fabrics to their best advantage and they can't be changed one-for-one with Sue's fabrics.)

You could have something there Diane. I am sure Margo will answer you as soon as she sees your post.

For the first month, Margo gave instructions for Fabrics to pre-cut for later months, aka chunky cuts. Can these also be applied to Sue's version? If so, what are the comparable colors for Sue's quilt. I understand the background, and the L1 Dark Pink Dots say they replace Sue's G1 in the pieced swag border....but the other 3 colors: Y2 Subtle Yellow stripe, G3 Dark Green Dots, and Y1 Light Green Dots do not give comparisions to Sue's fabrics. Are there comparisons : ...or are the Y2, G3 and Y1 the same :

Hope what I just said above makes sense. I'm working on two other quilts for our local guild, one of which is another BOM. The instructions are starting to intermix with each other....along with making all the HSTs. Hmmmm....maybe mixing them all up could produce an interesting looking quilt... :shock:

Diane

Now why didn't think of that?...Thanks Margo

terrina wrote:
If you are having trouble with the mitered corners, you might want to consider replacing the miter with a solid corner square!

I don't do math well either! I got my measurement by assembling my lattice borders first, and determined the width of the inner floater/border according to the size of the lattice.

Here are Sue's directions (paraphrased from our 2009 BOM) about how to determine the width of a floater:

How do you do the math? Take the length of the inside unit and subtract it from the length of the outer
unit. Divide that number in half for the width of your floater. But don’t forget that when you cut the
fabric, you will always need to add two quarter-inch seam allowances (i.e., a 1/2 inch; this
includes a quarter-inch seam allowance on both sides of the floater strip).

So.... you will need to know the dimension of your lattice border to determine the width of your floaters.

Hope that helps.

Margo,

I decided to replace the slats border with one fabric. How wide should the strip be to equal the slats and the two pinks that border the slats. In your Month Two instructions, you use a 1-7/8 strip, but when I add the three borders together I get a different size. I blame that on my math handicap. Thanks for all your help and all that you do for the quilting world.

Sheron

When I attempted to miter the slat borders I had difficulty with slats coming out at right angles, they did not line up. The directions told me to start and end the seam 1/4 inch from the edge of the quilt center. That means at the "corners" of the square center, right? When I folded the fabric under to form the 45 degree angle I made a mess of things. Any ideas of what I am doing wrong? The corners of your quilt look perfect, Janice.

Oh Janice, It's beautiful!!