Quilt Fail!

In 2024 I pieced a pineapple quilt, in blues of course! There were a LOT of blue strips leftover so last winter I pieced those strips into log cabin blocks. (I thought I had posted about those blocks but I can't find it.) 

The plan was to wait until this coming winter and sew the blocks together then but I can't wait to do everything in winter, I need a finish now! I decided to sew the blocks into a Perkioman Mountain setting, I think it's just a more interesting design. 

The first few strips in all of the blocks are light blue fabrics then the fabrics became medium blues then dark blues. When I sewed the blocks together, I couldn't see the design, the light blues are too light! The darker blue strips look like sticks sticking out into the white strips.

When you take a close up look, the light blues don't look so light but they disappear when you aren't close!

I'm very disappointed with this quilt but now I've decided on a plan B. This flimsy is 96.5" right now. I had planned to add outside borders but I'm going to wait. This quilt is going to become a backing for another quilt. I don't know what that quilt is yet but I'll let you know when it happens. The borders will be added once I know what the size of the unknown quilt flimsy. I did stitch the outer edge of the failure so all those seams won't unravel.

In 2020 I pieced a quilt which I called Scrappy Barn Quilt which is set in a Perkioman Mountain arrangement. The fabrics are all darker in that quilt, you can definitely see the design. 

I actually have a lot of the dark blue strips left, I might try this design again. Or, I might make a perkioman mountain quilt using split 9 patch blocks like this one I made for my niece in 2022. Which one do you like the best, log cabin blocks or split 9 patch blocks?

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