Wednesday, February 26, 2025

Blue Buckeyes with a twist Top

 I am wrapping up the Blues for this months RSC... That gives me a day or two to clean up and guess what March's color will be????  (yellow!!)

I finished all my Blue Buckeyes - but!! do you remember that ORANGE is the Complimentary color to blue? And I live in BRONCO country... so you know... I just had to try something -and An Idea came to me...

But - after a few blocks I didn't like it - so I changed plans.


I had decided that I wanted to make Border blocks with orange - and in my mind I could get them to look like an extension of the quilt center - but the more I looked at it, the more I didn't like it... 

And then I was sitting on the couch, playing with my photos and I started cropping it - to see what might happen if I shrunk the border....and 

Voila!!!


I liked it - so I kept going.... and I made a few boo boos because with only half a block it became directional.... My seam ripper and I had to meet a few times, but it wasn't too bad....

Ta da!!!!

The finished top!!!



I ask you tho - IS it REALLY a finish if the girls aren't in the photo??? 


There you go! that is the end of my BLUE RSC stitching for this month!

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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

What a great border idea. This gives me all kinds of ideas.

Ceci

Meredith said...

Love this border idea! Thanks for sharing it; I’m going to try it!

Momma Llama said...

The orange blocks, as a "wrap around" , block border is a great design idea. It adds color, and compliments the blue blocks. Inspiring. Well done.
D. Weeks (aka Momma Llama - dweeks4602@gmail.com)

Donna said...

Love the orange and the shrunken block size! Very cleaver! I wish I could think outside the box.

Nann said...

Great design save, Alycia.

Sara said...

OK - that is a clever twist to the traditional. Wow!!

Yvonne from Quilting Jetgirl said...

A partial block for the border is the perfect frame. And of course the girls have to be in the photo for it to be finished! ;)