After some feedback, I think I’m settled on this combination. I tried it with the reds, but I think the complementary colors of yellow and oranges provide a nicer and greater contrasting accent.

This is how the combo works with the red option:

So Linda is doing a mystery quilt! I’m quite excited and the first clue sends us to find fabric in the following format: light, medium, dark and accent. I don’t have the yardage, so I went through my stash (it’s meager compared to other stashes I’ve seen and some of these fabrics were bought a decade ago!) and pulled out these choices.

I’m still undecided on my medium values, so I may go through my blues and purples for another option.

What do you think? Too disparate on the colour wheel? Not sure which one is the accent?

I just realized that I never posted the photo of the completed rug! Looking at this awful phone photo, a few thoughts come to mind:

• The binding looks terrible. I hand-sewed it on and it is so wrinkled!
• I didn’t sew the patches using a scant quarter-inch and on the smaller patches, I should have gone further out. The block size was smaller and the whole rug much less than straight.
• My quilting doesn’t look particularly good. Perhaps I needed to stabilize it in a frame after all.

 

Forgot that I took this photo! This was taken while I attached the outer corners to the flower part of the New York Beauty.

So I finally sat down to have a play with EQ7 and some Inklingo shapes. I received a newsletter from Accuquilt (part of my initial research into better template-makers before I found Inklingo) a while ago with this quilt featured:
http://www.accuquilt.com/go-cactus-flower-quilt.html

I saw it and thought the design was interesting and probably Inklingo-able. So I opened up EQ7 to redraw the quilt (and change the colors to something that suited me better) and while calculating all the shapes, I discovered that this is a variation on the 9″ Storm at Sea!

 

And then there was this cute pattern in another newsletter from Fat Quarter Shop:

http://fatquartershop.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/its-sew-emma-spotlight-color-me-crayons.html

I halved the size to see if it could be completely Inklingo-able, but there are some shapes that aren’t for sale.

 

I recoloured it and I’m calling it Rainbow Crayons.

Then I went back to the Inklingo site for the Drunkard’s Path EQ file and played with the block. I call this Colour Tabs.

 

Sewing this entirely by hand also meant hand-sewing the binding. In retrospect, sewing the binding before basting the layers would be much easier.

The same photo as the first post, but after processing via Camera+ app.

I needed a place to talk about all the sewing I try to do. I’m in the middle of a few projects, but at least the one above is complete! More on that to come!