Grandmother’s Fan Quilt: 4 Tricks of the Trade.
So I had fabric, a rough indication of the size of the individual blocks and a plan.
The first issue was wheather the fans would be monochomatic or alternate colors. I settled on monochromatic , with half the fans having 3 dark and 2 light blandes and the other half 2 dark and 3 light. This would prevent the quilt from being too static in color and form but no be chaotic as mixed green and rose fans would be.
In order to make the seaming of the concave fans to the covex
backround easier, I cheated!. I made very thin single fold bias trips in green and rose, then stiched raw edge to raw edge to the curved edge of each fan. I pressed the raw edge of the binding to the back, resulting in a finished fan edge. That way I could overlap the fan over the backround and stitch in the ditch between the bias and the fan through to the backround. No fussy pinning for me! 
Lesson Five Mix it up a bit to add livelyness to a static design
Lesson Six Be open to new traditional techniques to make patching faster
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