Log Cabin quilt top

Well, the 1940's retro pattern quilt project, mentioned in my last post, is not ready for its reveal.
Here is a top I finished to get it out of the way of the retro project.

Log cabin Courthouse steps blocks, logs finishing at 3/4 inch I believe.  I squared the blocks (a long tedious process) and began setting them together.  Oh no, some were not the same size!  A few were a little large, or a little small.  I guess I waver a bit in my seam allowance.  I matched them as best I could.  Some of the outer logs may be a little narrower than 3/4 inch - but it doesn't really show.

Close to single bed size, a little narrow.  This is an older UFO (Unfinished object) and I found 99 blocks.  Well that must be a 9 by 11 setting then. (No notes with the blocks, of course!)

A close up of the fabrics used.  I had scraps and short fat quarters I wanted to use up.  The red fabric in the center is left over from backing to a quilt.  The bright blue is left over from a border used in a previous quilt.

No borders yet on this top.  Nothing I have appeals to me, and I think I may leave it as it is.

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Anniversary quilt bound and done

Hello and welcome to my blog!
Another finish to report.  The quilt I made for our wedding, on our bed for (cough, cough) years, was showing wear.  Therefore I made a replacement Anniversary quilt, featuring some of the same fabrics (yes my stash has many long-lived fabrics in it!)  I used Bonnie Hunter's pattern called Crayon box - one of the free patterns on her website.

Gray in the centers of the blocks to calm it down, but it's a busy pattern.  Below, a view of a portion of the quilt.

A grayish batik for the border.  This was quilted by a local long-arm quilter.  I picked a pattern of swirls with hearts, and she did a great job.
A close up of the quilt and border:

Now onto my next project: a retro 1940's pattern that involves cutting pieces from templates, no rotary cutting.

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16 patch quilt done done

Done done:  quilted, bound, and labeled.

This post is similar to last week's, only now the 50 by 50 inch quilt  is done done.  I did not have enough of the border feedsack fabric left, so I bound the quilt with a blue feedsack fabric.  Luckily the joins  in the binding did not fall at the corners!

The quilt:

And a closeup:

Thanks to this website for teaching me how to smoothly join my binding ends.

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16 patch top

Post # 698!  Heading to 700!  I have been blogging here since 2004.

Today I am going to share with you a top that I pieced (except for borders) back in 2018 I think.  That year I was really into making quilts with real feedsack fabric.  I finally chose a border fabric and have the top ready for basting then quilting.

A simple 16 patch block, set on point.  A close-up of the fabric used:

(The muslin is new).  All vintage feedsack or vintage cotton fabric from antique fairs, antique malls, or ebay.
This quilt will finish at about 50 by 50 inches.  Now to cobble together some batting scraps and get to basting and quilting.  I'll do this one on my own sewing machine, as it's smaller.

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