As part of the RSC19 at Angela's blog, So Scrappy....I have been making 8" bow tie blocks using Cynthia Brunz's Exploding Bow Tie quilt as inspiration.
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In my head and with a few in my head only calculations, I figured I needed 48 blocks. There will be 10 color suggestions this year and I knew I wanted at least one of the "circles" to be black. Reason? I'm married to a "car guy". When you mention bow tie in our world you mean Chevrolet! In December, we traded in our 12 year old Buick for a new Chevrolet Equinox....Black! So this will be my "car quilt"
I started to lay out the blocks on the design wall, and because I am using my stash, the exploding design is lost because the colors are so varied. Or maybe because I need more of each color. I am reluctant to do that at this point.
I played with the blocks a little, checked for the actual rainbow color order, ROYGBIV.....and tried this.
It's not the final look, I still need Orange, Indigo and Violet blocks. And I am going to add 2 black circles....just 'cause. I colored up a design on graph paper and I am going to use pink also. So Pink, Red, Orange Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, Violet (Purple) will be my palette. This is an in progress photo and one I will share with the All People Quilt UFO Challenge Facebook page. It was my #5 item, the number selected to be worked on in April! It is not finished, but it is on the design wall, so not technically a UFO, yet! I am determined to finish this one.
Stay Busy and Stay Happy!
very pretty
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