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".

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Just an update

 Hello and welcome to my blog.  I have just a quick update today.  My Crayon box project now has a border and is a completed top.  I had a navy blue fabric (2.5 yards) that toned down all the brown in the quilt blocks.

Yes that's navy blue fabric not black.  The Crayon Box blocks are set next to each other, not with sashing as the original pattern suggested.

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How big a quilt? I have an answer

 Two weeks ago I posed a question:  Given a shoe box stuffed with 2.5 inch strips, and a plan to make a Crayon box quilt, how big a quilt would I be able to make?

I added a number of 4.5 inch plain squares, called for by the pattern by Bonnie Hunter.

I have sewn the strips together, and partially assembled the top:

As to the answer: 49 12 inch blocks, set 7 by 7,  for a 84 by 84 inch quilt, not counting any added borders.  All that came from this box:

And this is what is left:

Not quite enough (or with enough variety) to make 7 more blocks, and therefore a rectangular quilt.

Still, 84 by 84 inches, from one shoe box.  I shudder when I think of the size of my stash.

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How big a quilt can I make?

 A few weeks ago I had a cutting party and cut many strips and squares to use up scraps and fat quarters of Civil War reproduction fabrics.  They were overflowing a number of clear shoe boxes.  In the box below I have lots of strips 2.5 inches wide, and 12 to 20 inches long.  I started trimming these to the sizes needed for a Crayon Box quilt (pattern by Bonnie Hunter, on her Quiltville web page.)

The trimmed strips are at the bottom.  Now you may say, "Hey, Viridian, didn't you just make a Crayon Box Quilt using 30's reproduction fabrics?"  Well, yes I did.  But I like this pattern and it uses up so much fabric!  If your fabric has a theme and you have many different fabrics, it turns out so well!

My question:  Above is standard shoe box, filled with 2.5 inch strips.  How big a quilt can I make from this cut fabric?  I have already cut quite a few block pieces and the box is only slightly less full.  I am thinking a full or a queen sized quilt.  Amazing how big a top once can get from a shoe box of fabric.  I'll keep track of this project and report back when I have a finished top.

School has started and I haven't been able to work on other current projects, such as the double 4 patch.  Maybe next week.

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Crayon Box quilt done

 Hello and welcome.  Life is speeding up as the fall semester of my University get closer - I start on Monday!  But for the end of summer I finished up an older UFO.  I think I pieced it in 2018, and had a local long arm quilter quilt it in 2019.  It is Crayon Box, a pattern by Bonnie Hunter, resized for using 2 inch strips.  I used a variety of 30's and 40's reproduction fabrics.

Unbleached muslin is used for the center squares.  The 30's fabrics are the same style, so they play well together, even with widely different colors.

I ran out of the yellow I used for the border, so used another fabric to prepare binding.  This three yard length of fabric has been used for binding for two quilts now.  Size is about 72 by 90 inches, a little larger than I usually do.

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