Another new start: Zigzag quilt

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I have a heap of navy and indigo blue fabrics left over from a long term Dear Jane project.  And I borrowed a new book from our local library.  Of course this led to a new project.
The book is Red and white quilts:

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I was attracted to one of the patterns, called Walk this Way.  I am calling mine Zigzag.  You sew the blocks of white and colored strips a certain way, then lay them out on the diagonal:

On the "design floor."  The last row is in place but not sewed on yet.  Yes that is blue fabric not black.  I think it will be very graphic when done.  I am halfway there.  However I am running out of the white fabric, which is not unbleached muslin but has a pale yellowish cast.  Must go out tomorrow and buy more.
Edited to add: a closeup of the blue and white fabrics:

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New Start is a top

It's now a top, or a flimsy.

In a previous post I reported on my top of many nine patches and four patches.

It's now a top, with a fairly new reproduction brown fabric as a border.  Now 73 by 82 inches.

Above, a portion of the top, and below, a closeup of the border.

An odd size I guess, and I am not looking forward to machine quilting this one.  I am afraid of puckers on front or back.  Perhaps I'd best send this off to my local long-armer, who does a lovely job.

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Feedsack Frenzy quilt - almost done

I have been collecting feedsacks for a long time - at antique malls, antique fairs, and ebay.
Now to use them... and make a quilt that looks vintage, not too 'pretty'.  But of course don't we collect the pretty fabric?
So I had a bunch of 3 inch squares left over from a previous project.  A simple design, using them up, and vintage fabric for the border.

And another feedsack (from ebay) for the back.

A bright orange yellow flower pattern.  And you can see some of the feedsack fabric I used.  Simply quilted in straight lines, on my trusty old Kenmore.

Almost done - I am sewing down the binding (yet another feedsack fabric).  I did not have enough of the border fabric leftover for the binding.

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Wednesday New Start progress

Isn't it often the case?  That you finish one project and start a new one!   Why work on another UFO (Unfinished Object) when you can start afresh?  That is my case after the double wedding ring quilt finished earlier, and another small quilt quilted and ready for binding.

Why not make lots of nine patches and four patches, and really use up my stash of reproduction shirting fabrics?

Laid out on the floor, not finished or sewn together yet.  I have sewn a lot of small patches together but I am only about half done of what I have planned.

This is the Ohmygosh pattern, but in a different size than what the designer specified.

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