There is a lover of dragons in my family.
I took on this panel to alter. I didn’t really like the border design.
It took me several months (almost a year) to come up with a plan for framing the dragons. I didn’t want the overall size to grow any larger. I began by chopping off the borders around the dragons. I knew I wanted to use half square triangles (hst) so I made some. I made them with Kona black. I had a piece of white dot black with a hint of light black that I really wanted to use. I needed to cut it sparingly in hopes of stretching it far enough for the plan.
Time to sew them in strips and see how they work and look.
I love how this panel and the hst fabrics just seem to glow.
My daughter commented that the backing looked like dragon scales. I had to agree. I hadn’t even thought about that when I purchased the fabric.
Here it is in all it’s glowing glory.
After fretting about this panel for so long I’m really happy with how it turned out.
It finished at 40.5”X35.5”
I was messing around with an idea for my over abundance of decorative threads one day and made this tag and attached it to the back of the quilt. This idea needs some work.
March 2022 Calendar Journal
Spring weather is getting closer! That makes me happy.
