It is a rare occasion, for sure to post during the week. I just finished a quilt top and wanted to share it. I was going through some boxes last week and found these baggies of pieces. I laid them out on my ironing board and played with them for a couple of days and found there wasn't quite enough. I found another basket with pieces that were in the same colour family. I settled on some design ideas and then got down to putting it together. It is always fun trying to use the pieces you have without adding too many more larger pieces from my stash. The only large yardage I used was the dark brown(in the borders and binding) but it was set aside in the basket to be used with those pieces. This quilt finishes at 59x 69 a nice lap quilt that I can donate to Quilts of Valor.
Jack the ripper got a workout this morning as I was sewing on the last border. I didn't lay out the border blocks and thought it was straight forward sewing. Boy was I wrong. I absently turned a few blocks and the checkerboard pattern wasn't working. It was time for a coffee and some unsewing!! All back together by lunch.
If I get to it, it might get quilted in the next couple of days. That would be a quick turn around!! Probably I will go onto another project for a change of pace.
I see my friend Kathy is also working with scrap blocks and trying to make things fit. Hope she has better sewing luck than I did today!!
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