wip wednesday - PTS 10

First up, thanks for all your kind comments on my Socialite top.  I would have included an "action" shot but we don't have any big mirrors in the house and Laughing Boy hates taking photos so I'll try to get one taken by someone else at the weekend.

Now, I don't normally do WIP Wednesdays usually because I don't feel I have much to show.  The week I decide to join in turns out to be the week Lee @ Freshly Pieced decides not to hold her linky party.  Och well.  I'll share anyway. 

One night a few weeks back, in a brave attempt to avoid late night fabric shopping, I found myself on Flickr and signing up for the Pillow Talk Swap 10 swap.  I think it was this one that tipped me over the edge and made me realise that I needed to stop swapping for a while.  Don't get me wrong, I am stoked to be part of this swap.  It's just that I'm a little intimidated by the amazing loveliness that everyone makes so for me PTS has meant Pre-Trauma Stress!  I have a very talented partner and had a pretty good idea what I wanted to make.  That was until I was inspired to travel a different path when I saw this on one of Jo's Pinterest boards:

Source: thelollipopshoppe.co.uk via Joanne on Pinterest

It's gorgeous huh? A year or so ago I would have tried to make a slavish copy.  Instead I've used it as my inspiration to make this:



needs an iron!

Now I was really sceptical half way through making the 64 paper pieced blocks that make up this top but, now that it's done, I'm pretty chuffed with how it turned out.  I AM worried that it doesn't really follow my partner's brief, although she mentioned that she likes grey, blue and green (although she did say emerald green) but her inspiration mosaic had a number of triangle based things.  She's a little quiet on Flickr at the moment so I'm not sure I'll get any feedback on this.  The big question (as usual) is whether to make something else as a back up, just in case.... or to just go with it.  My plan is to do some dense straight line quilting with a zip at the end seam and a blue and grey back so it can be used either side.

The other thing is that it's pretty big - I got the maths a bit wrong.  I'm talking 20" square finished so it'll need a bigger form than requested too - I may send a form with it to make up for my oops.  It needs to be in the post next week to meet the deadlines so I'll plough on and make a final decision when it's done and done.