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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