Good day, and welcome to my blog. It is raining in the American Midwest, so it's a good day to sew and quilt.
I have a new start: one of the Free Patterns from Quilted Twins. They have a great array of free patterns, especially good if you have lots of 2 inch squares or strips.
I collected my blue, green, and teal scraps and fat quarters for This and That, cut squares, then I started assembling 16 patches. My sewing table looked like this:
I cut strips and squares with wild abandon. I do not count, even if the pattern says you need 365 (or 1288) squares. So I always have leftovers. Not with this project though. I was able to make the 72 16 patch blocks with only a few rejected yellow-green fabrics left behind. I tried to use colors from grass green to teal to blue-green to blue, to slightly purplish-blue.
Here are my piles of blocks. If I have counted correctly I have 72.
The next step: Add snowball corners to 32 of these blocks.
That's as far as I have gotten by Wed. morning. I plan to continue on the 32 blocks, then start cutting sashing strips and hopefully start assembly. I plan on less borders than in the pattern.
Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Wednesday Wait Loss, (she featured my pie birds finish - thank you!), Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery (she shared my Pie Birds finish too, thank you!), Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.
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Viridian
8 comments:
What a great site for free patterns--thanks so much for the linky;))
Your piece is really coming along so well...nice work
hugs, Julierose
i'll give you a like if you promise to keep the rain there...LOL....after 5 days of it...enough!!!
Looking like a great start to a wonderful scrappy finish!
This project looks the perfect one for using your little squares! Bravo for the 72 blocks achieved! Have fun sewing the sashings, it's going to be a pretty scrappy quilt. Thank you for sharing your inspiring work in progress and linking up!
Good for you for tackling that beautiful pattern. Hope it helps make a dent in your stash!
What a great start you've made of this! Your fabric selections are wonderful. Thanks for sharing on my weekly show and tell, Wednesday Wait Loss.
https://www.inquiringquilter.com/questions/2026/05/27/wednesday-wait-loss-486
What a fun start to a new quilt. Hope you wanted the rain! if not.... send it our way haha
Looks like a great stash buster. You've made good progress on moving it along.
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