9 patch project in 1930's repro fabrics

 Good day and welcome to my blog.  

Last week I wrote about my Cutting Party: going through lots of 1930's reproduction fabrics, cutting for 3 project to keep me going summer into fall:

1. 2.5 inch squares for nine patches.

2. 2 inch squares for a another columns-type quilt - a related but different pattern I have my eye on.

3. 5 1/4 inch squares and 2 7/8 inch squares (of lighter fabrics) for no-waste flying geese.

I am still pulling fabrics, but I started sewing the 9 patches together, to see if it matched the plan in my mind.  I am not sewing light/dark patches together, but all 9 are of one color.  Maybe set them side by side?

Or on point?

Well this does not match the picture in my mind.  Maybe some white or Nile green sashing fabric is needed.  I will make more 9 patches (I am having fun) and see how things develop.  Your opinions welcome.

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A Cutting Party

 Hello and welcome to my blog.  It's a cooler, somewhat rainy day in the American Midwest.

I wrote previously about how I was piecing blocks like mad.  I am at a natural stopping point: a pile of blocks that need to be measured and trimmed.  I don't wish to do this right now, so I am starting to cut pieces for upcoming projects.

I have a set of fat quarters purchased earlier this year - all reproduction 1930's fabrics.  After this investment, I must use them!  

And if I am going to go through these and iron them, I might as well cut for several projects.  Since I like scrappy 1930's quilts with a wide variety of fabrics, I decided to go through my scraps and add them to the mix.

On the ironing board, ready to go.  And if I am going to cut, I might as well cut for several projects.

1. 2.5 inch squares for nine patches.

2. 2 inch squares for a another columns-type quilt - a related but different pattern I have my eye on.

3. 5 1/4 inch squares and 2 7/8 inch squares (of lighter fabrics) for no-waste flying geese.

The beginning of my cut patches:

And I'm off!  It might be time to change the blade in my rotary cutter.  I am having to press down a bit, and sometimes recut.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday wait loss, (She featured my columns quilt!  Thank you!), Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Columns quilt finish and some new blocks

 Hello and welcome to a very warm day in the American Midwest.  I have a finish to report.  According to past blog entries, I finished this top in 2016, and it languished for a while.  I had thought to hand quilt cables in the white parts of the top, but this year I knew this just wasn't going to happen.  So off to the long arm quilter (Boone's Quilting).

I am calling it my Columns quilt, and it is based on a vintage quilt I saw on ebay and could not afford.  I studied the ebay pictures and came up with a pattern for myself.  I used actual feedsacks and vintage fabrics that I have collected for a real vintage look.  A closer look:

Fabric squares were cut at 2 inches, to finish at 1.5 inches - postage stamp size.  

A close up of some of the fabric used.  The quilt came out square (76 inches) and I wish now I had added a white border at the top and bottom of the quilt, but it's too late now!

I have also been piecing madly in my sewing space.  I have been using my feedsack fabrics to make the flower garden pattern from the book Scrap Therapy: Scraps Plus One by Joan Ford.  I found this book in my local library.  You make two different blocks:

And set them alternately to make the whole pattern.  Here are nine blocks:

Feedsack fabric is more loosely woven than quilting or garment cotton and stretches easily.  You may need to trim:

Final project size will by 4 blocks by 5 blocks.  The blocks finished at 15 inches square, so this will be a reasonable quilt size.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday wait loss, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Feedsack Trees project: now a top

Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I have a top to report on, but first:

Did I really use 6 yards of Kona Snow solid fabric in July?  I think I did.  I ordered this fabric from Fabric Shack (better prices than a certain chain store) and it arrived in early July.  I've been busy with other things for two weeks, and I looked in my sewing area for what's left, and found 45"  of the yardage left.  I have been cutting lots of sashing for my Starlight Geese project, and more pieces for my Feedsack Trees project.  I guess that's where it went.

Anyhow.  The beginnings of my Trees project is described in this post.  I have been using authentic feedsacks I have collected over time.  I had a number of blocks, and set them with 1 inch (finished) sashing.  Here is what the top looks like now:

A lovely grove of trees. It will be  throw size.  Recall that I am using part of a published pattern, Winter Solstice, for this.  One inch white borders and I think I will stop here.  I had to carefully cut into my 45 inches of fabric left for the outside borders.   A close up view:

Oh yes, I played thread chicken with the top thread on my machine, in sewing this together:

Only about one foot left at the end of a seam.  What's that in the background you ask?  My husband's model train set up (HO scale) and landscaping styrofoam.  He has a long way to go on getting this landscaped.  We share the hobby room.

I will audition feedsacks and vintage fabric for a border for this project, but honestly I think I will stay with the current form, and send this off to the long-armer I use.  She is Boone's Quilting and you can find her business page on Facebook, if you search her name.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday wait loss, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Viridian