Potato Chip project: Quilted up

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  It's a dark morning full of clouds and thunder.

But it's a day to blog about my progress on a 2024 UFO.

In October 2024 I started making potato chip blocks - you can't make just one!  You can find instructions on the web or look at my tutorial HERE.  Fabric pieces are 2.5 inches by 4.5 inches.

I also included my progress in that blog post.

Once a top, I folded it up and it languished until I felt I needed to finish a UFO, rather than start a new project.  That time is this week.

I prepared a "Frankenback": sewing together several long cut offs of backing fabric from previous projects.  All the same beige fabric.  I did the same with long batting scraps: making a "Frankenbatt".  It's almost like getting free backing and batting (but I did pay for it).

I quilted it on my trusty old Kenmore, feed dogs up:

I quilted just simple straight lines in the ditch.

Quilted, not trimmed:

And a close-up:

Lots of older fabrics here, some more than 30 years old.  The overall quilt is busy, and if I do this pattern again, I would use sashing in between blocks.  I have also seen versions with the center two pieces a bright color, then the first round of pieces is all pale neutrals, then bright fabrics for the last round.

Next: trim and bind.  I have the binding prepared and saved.

Linking up with Monday Musings, Sew and Tell at Melva Loves Scraps, Design Wall Monday, Wednesday Wait Loss, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, From Bolt to Beauty, I Quilted This! at Quilting and Learning, Frederique at Quilting, Patchwork, Applique, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

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