Top done: Limeade (in different colors)

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I am happy to report that I have a top now, in the Limeade pattern.  As described in a previous post, the suggested colors for this pattern were quite unappealing.  I chose red, white, and blue as my colors for this pattern.

The top:

A close to square top, at about 56 by 59 inches, according to the pattern.  And all the columns lined up nicely, hurrah.  A close-up:

A variety of navy blue fabrics were used.  The red is constant.

I will admit that I am tired of this project now.  After showing it to my quilt group, I am going to offer it (and 1 yard of leftover white fabric) to anyone who want to finish it.

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Project in Progress: Limeade

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  I have been traveling for the last two weeks and have been away from my sewing nook.  But I am back now and making some progress.

A spin-off group from my quilt guild meets every other month.  We take on a project each meeting, often involving pre-cut fabric (jelly rolls, etc.).  The project assigned in August was the pattern Limeade.

The suggested background fabric was a lime or chartreuse color, with gray and coral fabrics.  It's definitely not my color scheme.

I decided to go with red, white and blue fabrics, buying the white and using red and blue fabrics from my stash.

I am in progress on this project.  All parts are sewn, but I must assemble them.  Here is a picture of some parts laid out:

You assemble columns, then sew the columns together.  Hopefully they come out the same length!  More will be reported next week.  I hope to have the top completely assembled by then.

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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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