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:

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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.

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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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