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, 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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"Anything goes" log cabin project now a top

 Good day and welcome to my blog of quilty things.

This past week I picked up a project I started in Feb. 2025 - a set of log cabin blocks.  I used what I had available: mostly civil war reproduction fabrics but also leftovers from other projects.  Therefore, the title, Anything Goes.  

Start of project is described HERE.

The blocks finish at 10 inches square and my top now looks like this:

About 50 by 70 inches in size, plus a narrow border.

A close up:

And I am getting smarter:  I cut, pressed, and rolled the binding for this quilt.

It will have a label in that baggie too.  What project, size of project, length of binding, and date.

P.S. I saw this in a local used bookstore, in the quilting and crafts section:

Quilting is not for the weak!

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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