Spent the whole weekend piecing this top (you can see I've only pressed the seams for about half the rows so far) this far, which is that I finished all the rows except the boarders. This was my first ever attempt at piecing triangles. I turn out not to be very good at it so far, but I do think it came out good enough considering it was a first try. I'm getting better and better at cutting squares and piecing in general. I'm trying to decide what kind of border to do. I have red Christmas fat quarters which I was going to use to put a red quilted boarder of 5x5 squares (same as the other squares). But now I'm thinking maybe I should do a non-pieced red boarded. Part of this is because I really don't want to deal with any more piecing of squares. But I really should do whatever will be the best for the design.
Also, I'm starting to contemplate what to do the to the back of the quilt. I bought a large green piece of flannel fabric. It's not big enough to be the entire back, but I have 4 fat quarters t hat are Christmas prints on blue fabric. I need to somehow cut and assemble these to make the back big enough. Hopefully I can do it in a way that's not too challenging.
I probably spent 10 hours this weekend piecing the quilt top not including having done about 3/4 of the cutting before starting the piecing process.
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