I spent some time assembling Patchwork Palooza the other day. I haven’t finished yet, but I am making progress and I enjoyed the process.
I wasn’t sure about the sashing, but think the blocks needed some space between them. Some blocks, where I used the background fabric as their background, are floating now, which I think looks nice.
The blocks looked very crowed when I put them all up on the design wall right next to each other. Now
I put them up according to the layout of the project. I changed around a few of them and may change a few more, but we’ll see. With the limited palette I used, it is hard to keep similar colors away from each other.
I also decided to finish out the Irish Chain effect. You can see what I am thinking in the lower left hand corner of the photo at the top. I took apart some of the extra alternate blocks and made them into border blocks.
Of course, I am not following the finishing instructions, so I am not sure how big it will be in the end, but somewhere around 72×84. A good size.
