I started the cheddar bow ties after hearing the shout out from Bonnie Hunter to do a Leader and Ender.I am still working from stash so any/all projects are what ever size the fabrics allow for. In this case I had a couple of yards of a cheddar on cheddar print that I thought would be an interesting background material.
I used my GO dies and cut sets of 2" and 3 1/2" sqs to do the 5 sq method of the Bow Tie.
I don't have a 'design wall' but my living room floor will serve well in a pinch. Normally I wouldn't even bother laying the blocks out, I would just start sewing sets together and let the colors fall where they may. I knew I had 48 of the larger bows and 192 of the smaller. (My thought was to match 4 sets in either the "O" or "X". The first photo shows some possible layouts.
After getting all the larger blocks sewn, I just wasn't in the mood to tackle the smaller ones. (Here is where I should have just put it all away for another day!)
I know better then to sew late at night- lol
Anyway I sewed all the 6 1/2" bows into 4 patch "0's" and then set them 3 x 4. In my head I was going to do a small border and then do an outer border of the 3 1/2" bows.
I don't know if looking at all this Cheddar was just getting to me or what but I took a break and looked for a fabric to separate the two sizes of Bow Ties.
Look at what I found on the shelf- No Idea where/when it came from or why I have it.
I swear it looks like I pulled from this focus fabric for my controlled scrappy Bows.
After adding a 6 1/2" border of the GOLF material, I was once again in the mood to start sewing on the smaller bow ties. 120 more to go and I can add them to my center. I think this is the crazy-ist top so far this year- it just makes me smile every time I see it. Now I need to find a golfer that needs a quilt so I can have an excuse for this one of a kind creation!
These fabrics are from the last century (1980+) I can't wait to have another late night of mindless sewing so I can get Cheddar Bow Ties to the flimsy stage.
What is the crazy-ist quilt you have made? Don't you just love when they have a mind of their own?- cw
Here is a link to the last post I did on Bow Ties
