As
I was starting today, I noticed that I had apparently tried to put a border on
this wall hanging all those years ago- there were stitch holes from where something
was removed. My first thought was I hope
I am not doing the same thing I tried all those years ago and wound up hating
it and getting frustrated. After all,
that is what I used to do!
I
hung the top up on my wall to look it over and decide what it needed. First off, I wanted to harness in all the
white background. Since I had followed
an order with the colors of the blocks, I decided to go with that, putting
narrow strips on each side (they will be ½” finished), using the color that was
on that side of the blocks- does that make sense? You
can see what I mean in the pictures. I also
left the strips long and only sewed to ¼” of the white edges, so I could miter
the corners.
(What
looks black on the right side is actually a very pretty deep purple.)
It
has been a very long time since I mitered a corner, so it took some time to
figure it out. I finally got there, only
having to take one out and re-do, and I don’t think they look too bad.
Now
it is time to make the piano keys. I
have never done this before, so I’m not too sure about the mathematics of
them. The top is currently approximately
27 ½” square. Sewing 1 ½” strips of the
colors together in the same clockwise order of color, I got a 4 ½” wide strip.
I
then cut it into 4 ½” increments, which I laid against the top in a couple of
ways to see what I liked best-
Even
though I like all three, I think I will go with plain old piano keys, the first
one.
Because
of the math involved, I will have to take a couple of keys out here and there to
make it fit proper, and in the corners, I am going to make 4-patch cornerstones. I have to get the top and bottom “keyboards”
on before I can attach the sides with the cornerstones. Here is how the first one looks:
So
I will just spend some time putting these together. Tomorrow, I will figure out the cornerstones.
This is really cool. I agree with you about the piano keys too, it looks best that way
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