Progress on This and That in blues and greens

 Good day and welcome to my blog.  We are having wonderful Spring weather in the American Midwest.

Last week I wrote about my New Start:  a pattern called This and That, from the Free patterns page of Quilted Twins.

I am happy to report that I have made a lot of progress this past week!  I am rereading the directions to be sure I have the sashing sewn together correctly.  Then I add it to the 16 patch blocks I have prepared.  The top currently looks like this:

And a close up, so you see the sashing:

Each 16 patch block finishes at 6 inches square.  I really like the framing of each block, and how this is turning out.  So much so, that I am looking at my yellow-orange-red scraps, fat quarters, and left over jelly roll strips, and thinking of doing this pattern again in those colors.

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In other news: I went to a quilt show with vendors and didn't buy any fabric!  But I did buy a vintage sewing box that is missing a handle but still works very well.  Closed:

And open:

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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New start: This and That in blues and greens

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It is raining in the American Midwest, so it's a good day to sew and quilt.

I have a new start: one of the Free Patterns from Quilted Twins.  They have a great array of free patterns, especially good if you have lots of 2 inch squares or strips.

I collected my blue, green, and teal scraps and fat quarters for This and That, cut squares, then I started assembling 16 patches.  My sewing table looked like this:

I cut strips and squares with wild abandon.  I do not count, even if the pattern says you need 365 (or 1288) squares.  So I always have leftovers.  Not with this project though.  I was able to make the 72 16 patch blocks with only a few rejected yellow-green fabrics left behind.  I tried to use colors from grass green to teal to blue-green to blue, to slightly purplish-blue.

Here are my piles of blocks.  If I have counted correctly I have 72.

The next step:  Add snowball corners to 32 of these blocks.

That's as far as I have gotten by Wed. morning.  I plan to continue on the 32 blocks, then start cutting sashing strips and hopefully start assembly.  I plan on less borders than in the pattern.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, (she featured my pie birds finish - thank you!), Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery (she shared my Pie Birds finish too, thank you!), Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Pie birds UFO now Complete!

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I am back after an extended trip to Europe which was wonderful.  

I was able to get back in my sewing room after getting over jet lag and I have a finish to report.  It is Pie Birds, a pattern by Kim Diehl.

I was looking at a pattern book that I got out of the library.  I tried a sample block of her Pie Birds block from her Simple Charm book.  It was not simple.

Start of project - one sample block is HERE.

Continuing, to 9 blocks, is blogged about HERE.

Still not big enough:  going to 30 blocks for a 5 by 6 setting, is blogged about HERE.

Now:  A beige background and cotton batting, quilted by a local long arm quilter that I use.  I bound it in the same black fabric as the outer border this morning.

And a close-up:

I used 1800's reproduction fabrics in browns but also bright colors.  The 'flying goose' unit is actually two half square triangles sewn onto the 'logs' of fabric, increasing the piece count per block and the difficulty. 

Next up: 16 patch blocks in blue, aqua, and green scraps and strips.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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A UFO finish: Jelly roll race quilt done

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

Happy Spring if you are in the Northern Hemisphere.

I have a finish to report.  I could not find this project reported on my blog, but I must have started it in 2017 sometime.  This is a Jelly Roll Race quilt, using a batik jelly roll (40 strips, width of fabric).

I followed the instructions given by Wee Folk Art.

I know the borders were added more recently, in 2024 or 2025.

 I layered the back, batting and top on my bed, and put my rotary cutting mat underneath, and pinned the quilt sandwich.  I then machine quilted using my trusty old Kenmore.  Alas, when I turned the quilt over, I found this:

How mortifying!  But I am not making this quilt for show.  So, dear reader, I left it in.

I sewed the binding (same fabric as the border fabric) onto the back of the quilt sandwich, then folded it over and top-stitched to the front.  I found a great thread in my stash, to match:

It's a King Tut thread.  And finally, a close up of a corner, showing the fabrics used:

I marked those outer quilting lines in white chalk, and some remains on the top.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery (she featured my quilt top - thank you!), Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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