Potato Chip project: Quilted up

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a dark morning full of clouds and thunder.

But it's a day to blog about my progress on a 2024 UFO.

In October 2024 I started making potato chip blocks - you can't make just one!  You can find instructions on the web or look at my tutorial HERE.  Fabric pieces are 2.5 inches by 4.5 inches.

I also included my progress in that blog post.

Once a top, I folded it up and it languished until I felt I needed to finish a UFO, rather than start a new project.  That time is this week.

I prepared a "Frankenback": sewing together several long cut offs of backing fabric from previous projects.  All the same beige fabric.  I did the same with long batting scraps: making a "Frankenbatt".  It's almost like getting free backing and batting (but I did pay for it).

I quilted it on my trusty old Kenmore, feed dogs up:

I quilted just simple straight lines in the ditch.

Quilted, not trimmed:

And a close-up:

Lots of older fabrics here, some more than 30 years old.  The overall quilt is busy, and if I do this pattern again, I would use sashing in between blocks.  I have also seen versions with the center two pieces a bright color, then the first round of pieces is all pale neutrals, then bright fabrics for the last round.

Next: trim and bind.  I have the binding prepared and saved.

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Flying geese top almost done

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In my last blog post, I shared an 8-inch block using flying geese units, and an interesting set.

Today I report that I finished the blocks and started assembling the diagonal rows for the on-point setting.

Here is the top with setting triangles in place, minus borders:

And a close-up:

The border will be 4 inches wide (cut at 4.5 inches), using a navy print fabric I had held aside.  I had just enough:

Yes, that's what is left. I will add the borders later this week.

A Tale of two neutral fabrics

I had ordered a yard of a Kona Solid fabric in a more warm beige tone that my usual Kona Snow, to see if I liked it.  I did, and I went ahead and ordered 1.5 yards of this color, I thought, from etsy.  I was sure that I had originally ordered the champagne color.  So that is what I ordered from etsy.  I wanted it for the setting triangles for this project.  

Well, when it arrived, it was clear they were two different colors.

Triangles:  Champagne color.  Folded yardage:  the original purchase.  The color difference is more obvious in person.  I used the Kona Champagne in my quilt top.  I'll use the yardage in another project.

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New block and interesting set

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I was looking in the book All-time Favorite Scrap Quilts from That Patchwork Place, and saw an interesting project called Good Fences make Good Neighbors.

I didn't want to make pinwheel blocks so I played around on graph paper and came up with an 8 inch block with flying geese, not a 10 inch block as in this pattern.

But I still used the suggested setting.  Here are some blocks, laid out on a table.

I am making the flying geese units using the no waste 4 at a time method.  You can see a PDF of how to do this HERE.  I am using reproduction fabrics, 1850 - 1890 style.  

I have 46 of 50 blocks done.  The center portion should be 56 by 79 inches in size (EDIT: 56 by 67 inches!) and then add borders.  I still have to square all the blocks and cut the outside setting triangles.

The Book in case you are interested:

So is this an original block?  Maybe.  Let me know in the comments if you have seen it before.  Is it an original quilt pattern?  Definitely not, as I am using the setting I saw.

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Hamilton Gardens Quilt Finish

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In 2025 at the start of my retirement I started on the pattern Hamilton Gardens by Bonnie Hunter.  Blocks are sewn together and set on point for a dynamic look.  She gave instructions for filling in the triangles around the edges that come with such a setting.  But I used plain setting triangles, as you will see below.

Start of the project is described in this blog post.

Progress on blocks is described in this blog post.

The start on assembly is described in this blog post.

Today I report that the top has been quilted by my local long armer quilter, and it is bound.

And a closer look:

Every so often, the reproduction fabric squares will contain the image of a flower, a girl, or a train.

On to the next project!

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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