May 11 2009
I’m Not Martha Update for May
I’m Not Martha is a quilt that I challenged myself to put together for as little money as possible. I managed to pull together enough fabrics for the 42 full hexagon diamonds and 8 half diamonds from my meager stash & swap & purchase the rest on sale for about $37. I’ll make the backing from some of the larger pieces I have in my stash.
Originally I wanted to coordinate the sets so that I could have 7 of each of 6 different colors, but when you’re “making do with what you’ve got,” things don’t always work out like you hoped. There wasn’t any way to put the fabrics together without mixing & matching colors. So some diamonds are made with 2 colors — blue & yellow, purple & pink, etc. And some of the fabrics aren’t as perfectly coordinated as I’d like either, but that’s also part of the “making do” thing. You actually find yourself being more creative. I needed 50 sets of fabrics so I mixed & matched as best I could. (I keep telling myself that it will be part of its charm.)
I fell behind in February in my goal of making one diamond a week but got caught up in March to where I should be. I managed to stay current in April. I now have 15 of the 42 full size diamonds done. That’s 375- 1.25″ hexagons!
Diamonds are on my to-do list. Yours look great.