Progress: This and That in warm colors

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  Thanks for stopping by.

Last week I wrote about starting a quilt project (This and That, from Quilted Twins) in warm colors.  This week I progressed on that project.

I sewed 72 16-patch blocks in assorted colors.  I measured, trimmed, and squared them up.

Luckily, they were the right size or only slightly larger than 6.5 inches, unfinished.  I then started making 'snowball' blocks on 36 of these blocks:

I am using Kona Snow fabric.  I wish I had a pale pale yellow but I am not going to buy more fabric for this project.

As mentioned before, I cut into my scraps and fat quarters with wild abandon, not counting.  This habit backfired on this project as I have lots of strips and squares left over:

Yes that's the leftovers after making 72 blocks.  I must think of another pattern to use them up.  There is quite a bit left.

To do:  Finish the snowball blocks.  Cut sashing and cornerstones, and start assembly of the quilt top.

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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Start: This and That pattern in warm red/orange/yellow colors

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

I wrote last week about my progress on the pattern This and That, from Quilted Twins Free patterns page.

I worked with scraps and yardage in green/teal/blue colors.

It took a lot of sewing of 2 inch squares into 16 patches, then bordering them.  But the result is very pretty.

I speculated about doing the same pattern in warm colors.  Today I report that yes, I did pull out my yellow/orange/red fabrics and started cutting strips and squares. Some fabrics I bought once upon a time for a color wheel study,

like this orange-yellow fabric.

Strips and pieces, ready to go: 

My sewing table looked like this, while in progress:

Twosies are sewn into a row of four, then assembled 2 rows by 2 rows.

16 patch blocks now look like this:

And even more!

Orange is not a color I normally work with, and I ordered a set of 10 fat quarters to beef up my orange fabric variety.  Bright and cheerful colors!

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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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.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt and stamp posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

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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.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt and stamp posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

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