Medallion Update

The Marcelle Medallion QAL might have ended weeks ago, but I'm still working away at mine. I've finally finished my fifth border. It took longer than I'd expected because I kept making little mistakes. First, I didn't cut enough bricks. Then my strips were too short because I thought the border had cornerstones. I almost went the easy route and used cornerstones anyway, but in the end I cut more bricks, because I'm nothing if not a perfectionist!

It took a full month to get this border done. I know this because I started my cutting at Quilt Sunday in November and I finally attached it yesterday at the December gathering. In retrospect, I wish I hadn't included low volume prints and gone with only saturated colour, because I really wanted this border to read "turquoise" and I think the lighter bricks muddy this a bit. Ah well, live and learn.

I went to my Instagram friends to help me select the print for border six. I think this border should offer somewhere for ones eyes to rest, but I wasn't willing to use a solid or muted colour. My initial choice was the chartreuse seashell print from Tula's Acacia, but then I held up Anna Maria Horner's haystacks and I was swayed.  My IGers, however, were overwhelmingly in favour of the Tula print, proving once again that I should always go with my first instinct. The AMH will be my final border.