Friday, 21 January 2011

The Farmer's Wife Meets Jane - revision?

I'm putting together part of Stars for a New Day, the block of the month from 2009 at the Quilt Show.  I didn't start it till last Spring, so in my mind, I'm not that far behind!  The way that this quilt is set has highlighted, to me, the flaws, for lack of a better word,  that I was aware of with the Farmer's Wife Meets Jane quilt.


There really is not much at all wrong with the FWMJ quilt..,.but it could have been set in a numerous ways.  I played with many different fabric ideas for the setting triangles in the middle border, but I felt that with all the prints and proportions of the blocks themselves, a plain fabric would be best - this leaves me with having to do some pretty fancy quilting in these spaces (ack!).  Overall, I feel that the quilt is dark..more brown than I really wanted.  And, I think I did make the last border too narrow.  The Stars for a New Day uses lighter fabrics overall, I had long ago purchased some pretty florals for the setting triangles...and most importantly, when I designed the FWMJ quilt I did not realize that Stars for a New Day had a similar setting in one of its borders which will always make me think that I could have improved FWMJ.

I think this will bug me enough to wish I had re-set the FWMJ quilt.  I think I will re-set it.  Something like this - once I can purchase new fabric for the setting and borders.  The fabrics shown here are ones I picked from the EQ fabric library.