For National Quilting Day: A new project

 Welcome to my usual Wednesday posting.  March 20 was National Quilting Day, and even though I have several projects ongoing, I decided to start a new project.  Hey why not?  And in different colors and fabrics than my usual Civil War and 1800's reproduction fabrics.

I had saved in my files a free pattern called Three at a Time:

https://www.fatquartershop.com/three-at-a-time-quilt-free-pdf-pattern

And decided to start on it.  You need a Jelly roll with 40 strips of fabric, and at least 2 yards of background fabric. though more would be better.  I had this Jelly roll from Lunn fabrics:

A beautiful array of blue, green, lime, yellow and orange batiks.  Following directions, this is as far as I have gotten:

Love the movement in this one.  The background is a dark charcoal gray, slightly mottled fabric.  The quilt is assembled in long columns and I have yet to sew them together.  You get the sense of where this is heading however.

I like this pattern - I may try it in 30's reproductions and unbleached muslin next!

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday,  Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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New Project takes over

 Good day, and I am back again.

In my last blog post, a few weeks ago now, I described the Growing Up Odd project, and my raft of leftover 2 inch squares.  Well, I found a way to use most of my squares: start a new project!

I have sewn my 2 inch (cut) squares into 16 patches, and set them alternating with unbleached muslin squares.  And why not put them on point:

OK, only partly put together, and sorry for the shadows.  But you get the idea.  And of course a closer view:

All sorts of Civil War reproduction fabrics, lots of browns.  This will be crib or throw sized.  

And I still have leftover squares. Not enough though to make more rows or columns to make this top bigger.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Put your foot down at For the love of geese, Needle and Thread Thursday,  Can I get a Whoop Whoop, Nina-Marie,  Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

Viridian