Brown Fabrics Coming Together

I was really happy with the way my latest brown quilt was coming together. It was time to add in some curves.

Yes, that was more interesting.

Now what? I knew that massing colors together is often effective. So maybe I could add some dark ones near the bottom circle piece.

Yes, something along these lines. As you can see, I worked in some more curves.

It looked like it now needed to get wider on the right.

Oh yes! I was really getting excited about this!

Along the way I decided the far left panel needed to be narrower, for two reasons: 1 – to make it a different width from the far right panel, 2 – to move the dark black/rust circles away from center. I auditioned the idea by covering the left edge with a piece of muslin.

But, did the top need cropping too? Again, I auditioned the idea with a strip of muslin. (Which is exactly why I own these strips of muslin.)

With a little tweaking and sewing the top was completed.

I am LOVING it!!! On to quilting.

Ellen Lindner