I'm trying to use fabric that I already have instead of buying more. I don't want to have too big of a stash, after all. So I thought it would be fun and interesting to have these two purples as the background for the blocks. (It really is purple, I just can't get the white balance quite right and I want to spend more time quilting and less time photographing and writing about quilting.)
I just remembered how it's going to lose width when I cut it apart and sew it into the seems that will be necessary to fit the blocks into the background. Therefore, it might not be the size I'd like in the end. I'm not sure what to do about it. I don't really want to add a border and I'm running out of fabrics that are the same as the ones I'm already using.
Similarly, with the back, it will get shrunken when I piece it together with these scraps (which may not be the final design, I just laid something out as a start.) What to do, what to do?
I guess I'll go start on the Christmas project and let this one simmer for a while.
Addendum: I just found another long, thing strip of black fabric underneath this big piece so I'll have no problem getting what I need out of the two pieces. Still need to figure out the front though. Later...
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