Closing out the year with some border progress

 Good day on New Year's Eve!  Welcome to my blog.

I am closing out the year with some progress on a stalled UFO.  It's been a very busy fall at work and I haven't gotten into my sewing room as much as I would like.  But yesterday I felt energized and I put borders on my Dutchman's Puzzle, simmering for some time.  I blogged about the range of fabrics - ages and styles, in this post.

New batik fabric borders really perk up the top.

The blue is the same fabric as in the sashing.  The red is also a mottled batik fabric.  And a view of a corner:

That red really jazzes things up, and pulls out the reds in the blocks.

Happy New Year to you!!  Here is hoping for a better 2022.

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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A finish - Crayon Box

 Good day and welcome to my blog post for this week!

It's been a very busy fall for me, and so I haven't been sewing or quilting as much as I would like.  My Dutchman's Puzzle top is still lying on the design floor, waiting on borders.  However I did pull out a project and bound it this last weekend.  Pieced in Sept. 2020, and machine quilted by a local lady who does a great job:

This pattern is Crayon Box, a free pattern available on Bonnie Hunter's Quiltville website.  These are all Civil War and 1800's reproduction fabrics in this quilt.  I have a lot and I was trying to get them used up.  Scary thing:  All the strips cut for this quilt fit in a shoe box!  How many quilts are represented in my stash!

Here is a close up of the border.  You can see the fabrics used and the great quilting.

Final size: 91 by 91 inches.  Too big for my home sewing machine, so I am glad I "quilted by check".

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