NYC Library Lions – more progress – 2021.03.14

I have good news and bad news about the blue lion. As I said in my last post, I was a lot more methodical with creating the pattern than I was with the orange lion – I marked all the values on the pattern before I started tracing the pattern pieces. That took about a day to finalize. Then another day to cut and position the pieces – see the progression below.

The bad news is, when it was all done, I didn’t like the fabrics I had used. I didn’t have enough medium values. I have 3 or 4 light to medium-light fabrics, and my medium-dark fabric was too dark. By itself it looked okay, but next to the orange lion, it didn’t have enough dimension.

So I started over. I had to buy some more blue fabrics, and I made some minor improvements to the pattern. Version 2 went together even more quickly than the first one. As you can see in the progression photos below, I started at the top and worked my way down in sections. In each section, I started with the lightest fabrics, then layered the darker fabrics on top. That way the darker fabrics don’t show through the lighter ones. I use Steam-A-Seam Lite fusible web. It has a re-positional temporary stick, and is permanent when ironed.

I’m much happier with version 2 of the blue lion. Now I have to fuse both lions to the backgrounds (they are just pinned in the photos above), then quilt them and mount them on 12 x 12 inch wrapped canvases.

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Thanks for stopping by.  I will be linking up with these blogs – click on the links below, where you’ll find many other creative and inspirational projects.

• Nina-Marie’s Off the Wall Friday
• Can I get a Whoop Whoop? by Confessions of a Fabric Addict
• Love Laugh Quilt Monday Making
• Quilt Fabrication Midweek Makers
• WIP Wednesday @ The Needle & Thread Network