30's reproduction scraps & pieces - ack!

 Good day, and welcome to my blog, and my overwhelmed sewing area.

I have been sewing through my 1800's reproduction scraps and strips, making Duckworth blocks.  There is a dent in my storage boxes.

Next:  my 1930's and 1940's reproductions scraps and pieces.  I have three larger-than-shoebox sized containers and a plastic bag of pieces, squares, and strips.

Even a partial jelly roll:

I also unearthed a quilt top that I do not recall making!  Or when I did.  It's pre-Covid, for sure.

What to do?  I recently finished a 2021 quilt top using a pattern called Three at a Time.  It's a jelly roll patten using 2.5 inch strips.  I had a number of these strips already cut in the boxes.  I could cut more and set with unbleached muslin.

Here I am in progress.

But oh no!  Even with 30 - 40 different fabrics in this quilt, the same green fabric ended up next to another piece. (upper right)

I left it in.  Setting fabrics together randomly, it's bound to happen.  True:  If you have a group of 30 people or so, two people will have the same birthday (day, not the year).  Statistically it's bound to happen.  So a fabric piece will touch the same fabric.

Top in progress:

And, I made a doll quilt with some leftovers, about 16 by 20 inches:

Still, I have a lot of fabric left.  I have another pattern picked out.  I must find yet more patterns and sew faster.

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

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Finished quilts to charity

 Today I am documenting three quilt I am donating to charity.  The quilt guild I am a member of has connections to Hospice and other places to donate quilts.  I plan to deliver these three quilts to the charity coordinator next week.

A twin sized quilt, from a Bonnie Hunter pattern.  I set the blocks differently than her way.  I like the movement of the triangles - like flying geese.  The triangles are actually a constant very pale yellow fabric.

This is also a Bonnie Hunter pattern.  I believe it is called Crayon Box, and I resized the blocks for 2 inch cut strips, not 2.5 inch cut strips.

This is more of a throw sized quilt.  Those are 1930's reproduction fabrics.  I had forgotten about this quilt, so I don't think I'll miss it.  I hope all three of these quilts go to good homes.

Viridian

2nd set of Duckworth blocks now in a top

 Good day and thanks for stopping by my blog.

I am sharing today an assembled top, minus a border, of Duckworth blocks.  These are wonky or improvisational log cabin blocks, usually in one color or color family.  They are named after Joanne Merrill-Duckworth who sadly passed away in May of this year.  It's a good way to use up scraps and leftovers, if your scraps are in short or long strips, as mine are.

I did one set of blocks in pinks and browns.  Then I sewed a 2nd set of 64 blocks with a 4 patch center and all colors.  They ended up at 6 inches square.  As in the first set, I did not want to set them together in a quilt top.  Too much of a "fabric vomit" look or a dog's breakfast.  So I bordered the small blocks in beige and dark gray fabrics (as in my first set of Duckworth blocks).  Here are some blocks, laid out on my worktable.

And a finished top, but no borders.  The blocks are set 7 by 9 for 63 blocks total.

I have recently purchased border fabric, but it's for another project.  Maybe there will be enough left over for this project, maybe not.  Must assemble the other project first!

A close up:

The fabrics are all 1800's reproduction fabrics.  I have set this project aside for the moment.

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

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Three at a Time quilt finish

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a seasonally cool morning in the American Midwest.

I have a finish to report!  My guideline is to finish quilt projects as well as start new ones, and I have started several new ones this summer and fall.  I pulled out this top from 2021.  The pattern (Three at a Time) is from Moda's Sew a Jelly roll webpage.  They put up free patterns for the yearly "Sew a Jelly Roll" day, in September.

It is 64 by 66 inches in size, takes one jelly roll, and some yardage of a background fabric, in this case a dark charcoal gray.

Start of project (March 2021) is described in this blog post.

A close up:

I quilted in the ditch with a variegated King Tut thread on top.  The colors were close to the jelly roll colors.  The quilting lines ended up being about 4 inches apart.

The back is cobbled together from several offcuts from other quilts, but all the same fabric.  The batting is also put together from leftovers from previous projects.  I straighten the edges of the batting, overlap the pieces by 1/8 inch or so, and sew over the join with a long and wide zigzag stitch on my sewing machine.  This was good because the quilting lines were some distance apart.  I could have just laid out the batting pieces with a slight overlap, pin and then quilt, but they would likely shift and make gaps.

The binding is a different dark charcoal gray fabric.  (I could not find any of the background fabric for binding.)  You cannot tell from more than 3 feet away.

Why is the pattern called Three at a Time, when the columns have groups of 6 fabric bars?  I really don't know.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps (she featured my Limeade top in R/W/B/, thank you!), Design Wall Monday, Wednesday Wait Loss (she featured my last post too, thank you!), Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, I Quilted This! at Quilting and Learning, 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

Viridian