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, 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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Top done: Limeade (in different colors)

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

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 wants to finish it.

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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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.

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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Broken Dishes pattern: A finish

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.

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!

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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