I fell in love with the Magical Meadow quilt featured in a McCalls quilt magazine earlier this year. I have gathered the fabrics and am now gathering my courage! Here's the deal....
The blocks are six inches finished! That means that the fourteen blocks surrounding the center have umpteen little pieces with corners that need matching...that are under an inch wide. Maybe a half inch??? They're tiny. And there are lots of them. I'm attaching the picture of the quilt as designed. Plus the block we're talking about. It's six inches square, remember.
I've done a workaround that gives me slightly bigger pieces and fewer points to deal with. I have worked this up into a foundation piecing pattern, but have not yet sewn it. I don't know that I want to. The substitute block is definitely not as pretty...but it also might actually get DONE by me! I see now that don't have the sample blocks done up in the right colors, so that may be a distraction. Sorry!
What do you think? Should I forge ahead with the quilt as designed, fearing certain disaster? Or do you think the workaround block will do? I also considered just making the fourteen blocks out of solid fabric, as I ended up with an extra panel and MIGHT have enough to do solids in those squares. I don't want to do that...but it's a possibility. Here are the photos.
I'd love to know if anyone else has made this quilt. And what your gut reaction is to my workaround.
Thanks for taking the time to look.
The blocks are six inches finished! That means that the fourteen blocks surrounding the center have umpteen little pieces with corners that need matching...that are under an inch wide. Maybe a half inch??? They're tiny. And there are lots of them. I'm attaching the picture of the quilt as designed. Plus the block we're talking about. It's six inches square, remember.
I've done a workaround that gives me slightly bigger pieces and fewer points to deal with. I have worked this up into a foundation piecing pattern, but have not yet sewn it. I don't know that I want to. The substitute block is definitely not as pretty...but it also might actually get DONE by me! I see now that don't have the sample blocks done up in the right colors, so that may be a distraction. Sorry!

What do you think? Should I forge ahead with the quilt as designed, fearing certain disaster? Or do you think the workaround block will do? I also considered just making the fourteen blocks out of solid fabric, as I ended up with an extra panel and MIGHT have enough to do solids in those squares. I don't want to do that...but it's a possibility. Here are the photos.
I'd love to know if anyone else has made this quilt. And what your gut reaction is to my workaround.
Thanks for taking the time to look.
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