Nancy - I love it!

I got my sampler blocks put together today. Here is what I have so far:

I put a narrow red border on it, then I'll add a wide black border. The black I used in the blocks is still out of stock and probably won't be in for a couple of months. I've got a Kona cotton black that would work, but I think I'm going to wait for a while to see if the black I want comes in. The Kona cotton looks fine, but I know it will bother me to not have the matching black so I'm going to give that a chance. I'm really happy with it and am already designing quilting motifs for the border in my head.

Nancy

Hi Terrie -

There are several ways to do Prairie Points, so calculating yardage would depend on the decisions you make up front. What size Prairie Points are you thinking about? Will the Prairie Points overlap? If so, by how much? Will you use one fabric or several? I would decide on the size of the Prairie Points first, then determine how much you want to overlap them, probably using the dimensions of the quilt to come up with a good number of points for each side. Once you make your decisions, you should be able to do the calculations. Let's say you decided to make Prairie Points there were 2" long on the long edge next to the quilt. For these, you would need a 2.5" square of fabric for each point. If you have 40" wide fabric, you could get 16 squares out of a 2.5" strip. If you needed 100 Prairie Points for your quilt and were making them all out of the same fabric, you would need (100 / 16) * 2.5" or 17.5" of fabric. Just remember to round up in the division.

For a piano key border, you again have to decide on the width of your keys and the width of the border. Since a piano key border would be out of several fabrics, you could add as many fabrics as you want to make the border the size you need.

Nancy

I am now at the point of adding the border to the sampler. However, I do not have anything appropriate in my stash for the 4 inch border. Maybe three inches..maybe. So, I'm wondering how I can calculate 'prairie points to see if the fabric I have left over can give me a praire point finish right after the first inside border ( mine is white, like Laura's) Or should I just put a wide-ish binding on the small white border? How about piano keys? Anything out there to tell me how to calculate these?

I will try once again to post a photo of the sampler, but haven't heard from Bob for a while, so maybe it's not going to happen.
I just tried twice and it's not happening. :

Rosemary, your work is all so beautiful! So glad I got to see it! Keep these beauties coming!

I forgot to say that it is at Hedon Muesum (just to the right of Hull on the map) and is an exhibition put on by the Hull & East Riding Branch of the Embroiderer's Guild.

The oakleaves are part of a William Morris design, which I drew onto tracing paper and stitched through and is a very starty-stoppy design to machine, but looks great, although it nearly wants to be a whole cloth by itself.

Very impressive! Thanks for posting the photos

Thanks for the tour, Rosemary.

But how does the bishop cope without it!

I like your oak leaves around your tree.

Amazing, Rosemary! Thanks for sharing the photos.
Marianne

Here we are 'Caught Red-handed's' first exhibition! with another friend from TQS and a small mat, I have yet to bind and as for miniature work - this is what my friend turns out :shock: {!-- ia0 -->CIMG6937.JPG{!-- ia0 --> The half circle piece at the back is a bishops cope, and next to it is a blackwork bed spread, all 1/12th scale or smaller.

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Don't most of us do that? I do for sure

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Reetzbobeetz wrote: I've been doing it too - and I very much doubt that even Cindy would ESS the centre block - I mean how much movement would you get from something that is stitched across & down every inch, let alone inside the blocks :shock: my only problem is I dislike SID on principal - it seems like a cop out to me.

Oh Rita you are so cruel!