30's reproduction scraps & pieces - ack!

 Good day, and welcome to my blog, and my overwhelmed sewing area.

I have been sewing through my 1800's reproduction scraps and strips, making Duckworth blocks.  There is a dent in my storage boxes.

Next:  my 1930's and 1940's reproductions scraps and pieces.  I have three larger-than-shoebox sized containers and a plastic bag of pieces, squares, and strips.

Even a partial jelly roll:

I also unearthed a quilt top that I do not recall making!  Or when I did.  It's pre-Covid, for sure.

Edited to add: I found this information on this top.  It's a Chinese Coins pattern I made in August of 2018.

What to do?  I recently finished a 2021 quilt top using a pattern called Three at a Time.  It's a jelly roll patten using 2.5 inch strips.  I had a number of these strips already cut in the boxes.  I could cut more and set with unbleached muslin.

Here I am in progress.

But oh no!  Even with 30 - 40 different fabrics in this quilt, the same green fabric ended up next to another piece. (upper right)

I left it in.  Setting fabrics together randomly, it's bound to happen.  True:  If you have a group of 30 people or so, two people will have the same birthday (day, not the year).  Statistically it's bound to happen.  So a fabric piece will touch the same fabric.

Top in progress:

And, I made a doll quilt with some leftovers, about 16 by 20 inches:

Still, I have a lot of fabric left.  I have another pattern picked out.  I must find yet more patterns and sew faster.

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Finished quilts to charity

 Today I am documenting three quilt I am donating to charity.  The quilt guild I am a member of has connections to Hospice and other places to donate quilts.  I plan to deliver these three quilts to the charity coordinator next week.

A twin sized quilt, from a Bonnie Hunter pattern.  I set the blocks differently than her way.  I like the movement of the triangles - like flying geese.  The triangles are actually a constant very pale yellow fabric.

This is also a Bonnie Hunter pattern.  I believe it is called Crayon Box, and I resized the blocks for 2 inch cut strips, not 2.5 inch cut strips.

This is more of a throw sized quilt.  Those are 1930's reproduction fabrics.  I had forgotten about this quilt, so I don't think I'll miss it.  I hope all three of these quilts go to good homes.

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2nd set of Duckworth blocks now in a top

 Good day and thanks for stopping by my blog.

I am sharing today an assembled top, minus a border, of Duckworth blocks.  These are wonky or improvisational log cabin blocks, usually in one color or color family.  They are named after Joanne Merrill-Duckworth who sadly passed away in May of this year.  It's a good way to use up scraps and leftovers, if your scraps are in short or long strips, as mine are.

I did one set of blocks in pinks and browns.  Then I sewed a 2nd set of 64 blocks with a 4 patch center and all colors.  They ended up at 6 inches square.  As in the first set, I did not want to set them together in a quilt top.  Too much of a "fabric vomit" look or a dog's breakfast.  So I bordered the small blocks in beige and dark gray fabrics (as in my first set of Duckworth blocks).  Here are some blocks, laid out on my worktable.

And a finished top, but no borders.  The blocks are set 7 by 9 for 63 blocks total.

I have recently purchased border fabric, but it's for another project.  Maybe there will be enough left over for this project, maybe not.  Must assemble the other project first!

A close up:

The fabrics are all 1800's reproduction fabrics.  I have set this project aside for the moment.

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Three at a Time quilt finish

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a seasonally cool morning in the American Midwest.

I have a finish to report!  My guideline is to finish quilt projects as well as start new ones, and I have started several new ones this summer and fall.  I pulled out this top from 2021.  The pattern (Three at a Time) is from Moda's Sew a Jelly roll webpage.  They put up free patterns for the yearly "Sew a Jelly Roll" day, in September.

It is 64 by 66 inches in size, takes one jelly roll, and some yardage of a background fabric, in this case a dark charcoal gray.

Start of project (March 2021) is described in this blog post.

A close up:

I quilted in the ditch with a variegated King Tut thread on top.  The colors were close to the jelly roll colors.  The quilting lines ended up being about 4 inches apart.

The back is cobbled together from several offcuts from other quilts, but all the same fabric.  The batting is also put together from leftovers from previous projects.  I straighten the edges of the batting, overlap the pieces by 1/8 inch or so, and sew over the join with a long and wide zigzag stitch on my sewing machine.  This was good because the quilting lines were some distance apart.  I could have just laid out the batting pieces with a slight overlap, pin and then quilt, but they would likely shift and make gaps.

The binding is a different dark charcoal gray fabric.  (I could not find any of the background fabric for binding.)  You cannot tell from more than 3 feet away.

Why is the pattern called Three at a Time, when the columns have groups of 6 fabric bars?  I really don't know.

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Top done: Limeade (in different colors)

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I am happy to report that I have a top now, in the Limeade pattern.  As described in a previous post, the suggested colors for this pattern were quite unappealing.  I chose red, white, and blue as my colors for this pattern.

The top:

A close to square top, at about 56 by 59 inches, according to the pattern.  And all the columns lined up nicely, hurrah.  A close-up:

A variety of navy blue fabrics were used.  The red is constant.

I will admit that I am tired of this project now.  After showing it to my quilt group, I am going to offer it (and 1 yard of leftover white fabric) to anyone who wants to finish it.

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Project in Progress: Limeade

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I have been traveling for the last two weeks and have been away from my sewing nook.  But I am back now and making some progress.

A spin-off group from my quilt guild meets every other month.  We take on a project each meeting, often involving pre-cut fabric (jelly rolls, etc.).  The project assigned in August was the pattern Limeade.

The suggested background fabric was a lime or chartreuse color, with gray and coral fabrics.  It's definitely not my color scheme.

I decided to go with red, white and blue fabrics, buying the white and using red and blue fabrics from my stash.

I am in progress on this project.  All parts are sewn, but I must assemble them.  Here is a picture of some parts laid out:

You assemble columns, then sew the columns together.  Hopefully they come out the same length!  More will be reported next week.  I hope to have the top completely assembled by then.

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Broken Dishes pattern: A finish

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I am on a business trip, but I do have my computer with me and can blog about my recent finish.

Earlier this year I started a Broken Dishes project, in 1800's reproduction fabrics.  This is an easy enough pattern, but when the blocks are set together, there are a lot of points meeting, so I would NOT recommend it to a beginner.

I wrote in my post then that I was going to quilt it myself on my trusty old Kenmore.  Well, instead I sent it out to the long arm quilter that I use, and it came back some weeks ago.  It's time to finish it.  I trimmed it and bound it in the same fabric as I used for the border.  A look at the finished quilt:

And a closeup photo:

I had to dig in my thread drawers to find a dark brown to do the top stitching on the front of the quilt.  (I machine the binding to the back, fold over, and carefully machine top stitch on the front.)  I found an old spool of cotton covered polyester thread made by Talon America (or American) - remember them?  Note the price:

I hope it is still strong after all these years!

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More Scraps and more Duckworth blocks!

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More looking on shelves - really looking - led to more discoveries of shoeboxes and bags of strips and scraps of 1800's reproduction fabrics.  Another wonky log cabin block (or Duckworth block) marathon was in order. I planned on a 7 by 9 set (63 blocks) or maybe an 8 by 8 set (64).  64 blocks it is.

What I had:

  

And I rooted through the trash for the 1 inch fabric strips I had thrown away.  I used 4 patches for a center for these blocks.  Starting with the narrowest strips, I started adding around the 4 patch center, using colored fabric, not white fabric.  Here we are coming up on blocks about 6 inches square in size.

One more log to add.  I admit I cut a few strips of yellow fabric to add to the mix, to brighten things up.

Some 2 inch green strips to add.

I have run out of strips of colored fabric so I am saying all blocks are done. I am squaring them up to 6 inches.  Some blocks were larger than this, but others just made 6 inches in one direction.  I wish I had enough fabric strips to add more rounds but I do not.

All colors are present in these blocks so I do not want to set them together - too much of a mishmash.  I need sashing such as in my previous Duckworth block project.  It's time to order more fabric!  😊

3 shoeboxes and one plastic bag of scraps is down to 2 stuffed shoeboxes.

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Scraps: Now a Duckworth pattern top

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Today I report on my significant progress on using my shoeboxes full of scraps.  I started with a white center block and made improvisational log cabin blocks.  These are, I realize now, Duckworth blocks.  Thank Kat for pointing this out.  See this blog entry for more on this pattern, usually made up in scraps from one color.  They are named after Joanne Merrill-Duckworth who sadly passed away in May of this year.

I was working with pink and brown reproduction fabric strips.  A pile of blocks:

I thought setting them side by side (the usual way with Duckworth blocks) would be too much of a mishmash.  So I trimmed the blocks to 6 inches square, and added sashing of beige and black, the two pieces of fabric I had big enough for this task.  The sashing finishes at 1 inch wide.  Here are some blocks sewn together.

I found a reproduction small patterned pink fabric (2 yards) to be border and binding.  The whole top:

And a close-up:

From 2 shoeboxes of scrap strips and about 3/4 to 1 yard of beige fabric, 3/4 to 1 yard of black fabric, and 2 yards of border fabric, I have a lap-sized top.  It is about 60 by 68 inches?  There is some border fabric left over.

Now to consider scraps and leftovers from making my Pie Birds quilt, and leftovers from a green and white log cabin quilt.  I overcut for both projects.

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What to do with all these scraps?

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It's time to do some clean-up of scraps, which in my case means using strips that I have overcut.

I have: one inch strips left over from a mini log cabin:

1.5 inch strips from two log cabin projects:  brown strips and lots of pink strips.

1.5 inch strips leftover from my Pie Birds project.

And cut offs from my prep for the flying geese project.

Since I had strips, I used the light fabrics in this last picture as a center, and added strips around it, log cabin style.  Here is a set of about 60 mini-blocks.

Here are the leftover 1 inch strips.  I have no qualms about tossing these out.

Next:  Add the 1.5 inch strips, log cabin style and build these "crumb" blocks up to at least 6 inches square, or larger.  Lots of pink and brown strips will continue the color story.

Stay tuned!

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Interim project: Flying geese units

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When I am done with a project and don't have a new one in line, I piece units such as Broken Dishes or Flying Geese.  This week it's been flying geese units, in 1800's reproduction fabrics.

I use the no waste 4 at a time method shown in this PDF.  I know this is not for everyone but if I keep a scant seam allowance, my geese units turn out just fine.

Cut squares:

Piles of finished geese that will finish at 2 by 4 inches:

What blocks to put together?  Perhaps Dutchman's Puzzle, finishing at 8 inches square:

Or Starlight Geese, finishing at 10 inches square:

Hmm, we'll see.  In the meantime, I am sewing 1/4 to the side of drawn pencil lines, cutting units apart, and pressing the units.  I will continue until I have enough for a single bed quilt.  Oh, and I purchased more fabric for sashing and binding for the eventual quilt.  😉

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Photos to share with Mom

 This is not a quilting post - that will be next Wednesday.

I am sharing photos of an apartment my mom is interested in.  This unit is undergoing renovation so it's empty at the moment.

To enlarge a photo:  Click on it once.   To close the photo view, click on the X at the extreme upper right.

Photos are in order in which I took them.  The fireplace in the living area:

The garage has the workman's items in it, and new appliances.

A view of the kitchen, where the stove will go.  There are lazy Susan cabinets on either side.

The sink area.

And where the refrigerator will go.

The solarium.

The Laundry room has cabinets.

Guest bath has bath insert.  The lid of the toilet is off, for some reason.

Guest bedroom with one closet, with wire shelving.

Master bathroom, with one piece shower stall, a little bigger than usual.

Master bedroom with 2 closets, wire shelving.  Ceiling fan!

Corner of master bedroom.

View of the main living area:

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