UFO Finish: Half square triangles

 Hello, and welcome to my blog!

I can report on the finish of a UFO (Un-Finished Object).  It is part of a game I play - but more on that below.

A series of half square triangle blocks and shirting fabrics in-between:

It is a pattern from the book Preserving History by Julie Hendrickson.  I decided against borders and it is now 56 by 74 inches in size.

Each shirting square and half square triangle finishes at 2.5 inches square!

I blogged about its progress:  https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2024/06/current-progress-on-reproduction-project.html

and the start of the project in Dec. 2022:  https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2022/12/two-new-starts.html 

A close up of the fabrics, including shirting fabrics used is below.  I have so many reproduction fabrics.  I am imagining a woman using fabrics like these in 1880 - 1890.

Now for the game:  I am part of an online quilting group (all quilting chat, no politics, no religion) called Stashbusters.  We aim to curb new purchases and bust our stash, sharing patterns and finishes.  Some of us sign up for the UFO game.  Each person declares how many UFO's they have, and sends in two fat quarters and $2 as an entry fee.  An intrepid member keeps track of us and our finishes.  As people finish a UFO they drop to the bottom of the list.  Everyone else rises one or more positions.  When your name reaches the top, you are queen of the UFO's and reign for a week, or until you have a finish.  No finish?  A penalty fat quarter is mailed in.  And the fat quarters?  Every time you have a finish your name goes "in the hat", and every quarter and at the end of the year, a random name is drawn to win a subset of the submitted fabric.

I aim to NOT become queen!  I was #4 on the list and so I trimmed and bound this UFO to have a finish, and drop to the bottom of the list.

Would you like to join us?  Check out the home page:  https://groups.io/g/stashbusters

I do have permission from the list owners to post this.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Viridian

"Clean up" project: Almost a top

Welcome to my blog.  I was able to find time this past week to continue on this project, that I blogged about previously.

It's almost a top!

What I have, laid out on the brown carpet on my basement floor.  The pattern is called Clean Up, and is found HERE on the Quilted Twins website.

 Each scrap square here finishes at 1.5 inches.

Here you can see the thin white border, then the black border around each big block of little squares.  Then a sashing made of more 1.5 inch blocks.

This pattern uses a lot of scraps, but I have more in the shoe boxes to be used.

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Viridian

"Clean up" quilt project continues

 Good day and welcome to my blog.

 Despite my full time job, I have been able to get into my quilt room this week, and have moved the Clean Up project forward.

It is a pattern by Quilted Twins, and you can find it HERE.  It uses lots and lots of 2 inch squares of fabric!

Previously I blogged about building the big blocks of 10 by 10 squares.  Now I am putting them together:

Three blocks with sashing of more little squares of fabric.  I now have 6 blocks done, and here is my current situation:

There will be vertical sashing between the  columns of more small squares, to be sewn together and inserted.  The pattern calls for for 4 by 4 blocks and border for a finished size of 95 inches square.  I think mine will be a little narrower.

And my box of 2 inch strips and 2 inch squares is not noticeably depleted.

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Viridian

A New Start: Clean Up pattern

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

I recently pulled out all sorts of scraps and cut pieces for potato chip blocks, and also cut 2 inch strips and pieces.  Last week I sewed potato chip blocks, and this week it's time for the pattern I picked from the Quilted Twins website, under their free patterns section.  It's called Clean Up, and you need 2 inch strips, sewn together, cross cut, sewn together randomly to make a central block of 10 by 10 squares, 15.5 inches unfinished, and 15 inches, finished.

My block is about 15 to 15.25 inches now, which tells me my seam allowance is a little wide.  Normally this doesn't make a difference, but adds up over 9 seams.

You also need border units of more 1.5 inch squares, and I have started on those too.  But I am concentrating on those big blocks.

Three down, many more to go!

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Viridian