Ready To Layer

The rails quilt is finally together and ready to layer. Still struggling to get a decently lit photo with true colors for you. All I can say is that I so like how it has come out, that it is so PRETTY and that is partly due to the fact that the pinks are slightly different. I was concerned that not all my pinks were a clear strong pink and I had to use some that were more muted and even with a slight orange cast. Now I see how well they work together and make this a better quilt.

These colors are more true, and I took this to show how I carefully placed the sashings and borders so the raindrops are all falling down. They don't do that in the blocks however; that would have been too much fiddling to figure that out before piecing and decided they could just represent the swirling storm the ark sailed through. It was only upon studying the picture that I realized that border was NOT on the right direction.

Glad I caught it now rather than while I was smoothing the top over batting or even after pinning. I would have been furious. I'm already a bit put out with myself. I was being so careful and double checking before pinning. Don't know how it happened . . . although I may have been looking at strips in a block turned the other way rather than at a sashing. Well, easy to fix although time consuming any time you have to get out the seam ripper!