UFO Finish: Half square triangles

 Hello, and welcome to my blog!

I can report on the finish of a UFO (Un-Finished Object).  It is part of a game I play - but more on that below.

A series of half square triangle blocks and shirting fabrics in-between:

It is a pattern from the book Preserving History by Julie Hendrickson.  I decided against borders and it is now 56 by 74 inches in size.

Each shirting square and half square triangle finishes at 2.5 inches square!

I blogged about its progress:  https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2024/06/current-progress-on-reproduction-project.html

and the start of the project in Dec. 2022:  https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2022/12/two-new-starts.html 

A close up of the fabrics, including shirting fabrics used is below.  I have so many reproduction fabrics.  I am imagining a woman using fabrics like these in 1880 - 1890.

Now for the game:  I am part of an online quilting group (all quilting chat, no politics, no religion) called Stashbusters.  We aim to curb new purchases and bust our stash, sharing patterns and finishes.  Some of us sign up for the UFO game.  Each person declares how many UFO's they have, and sends in two fat quarters and $2 as an entry fee.  An intrepid member keeps track of us and our finishes.  As people finish a UFO they drop to the bottom of the list.  Everyone else rises one or more positions.  When your name reaches the top, you are queen of the UFO's and reign for a week, or until you have a finish.  No finish?  A penalty fat quarter is mailed in.  And the fat quarters?  Every time you have a finish your name goes "in the hat", and every quarter and at the end of the year, a random name is drawn to win a subset of the submitted fabric.

I aim to NOT become queen!  I was #4 on the list and so I trimmed and bound this UFO to have a finish, and drop to the bottom of the list.

Would you like to join us?  Check out the home page:  https://groups.io/g/stashbusters

I do have permission from the list owners to post this.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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Viridian