Variations of a Patchwork Wall

Posted by Mary Welling-Bonney Jun 29, 2008

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I promised to leave some more variations for this project and I am a woman of my word.

I used the comparison in the article of using ceramic tile. So why not use the scrapbooking paper like ceramic tile. First paint the entire wall the color you want for the grout lines. Instead of several different colors, choose one paper that resembles stone. Leave a 1/4 inch, 1/2 inch or 3/8 inch space between sheets for the wall color to show through. It doesn't matter which measure you use as long as you consistently use the same measure all the way through. Omit using the embroidery floss altogether.

Another idea for the patchwork quilt wall is to create your wall just as we did in the article but instead of using the floss in a perdendicular manner in a variety of lengths, make it look like a running stitch. We do this by making all of our strands 1/2 inch in length. Instead of laying the threads across the seams, we lay them about a quarter of an inch inside of the square running parallel with the seam. Leave a 1/2 inch between the pieces and run them all the way around the inside of each block so that it gives the impression of the block being stitched all the way around. It is more work but adds a lot to the look.

Leave me your ideas and I will be glad to post them.