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Patchwork & Quilts

Monday, January 27, 2025

Close to Original

A weekend stitching produced this charmer

and it was loads of fun!

This blue top ended up a small queen size

at 73" x 80".

I used 2" strips for the columns with

a 5" pieced sashing between.

The film strip top and bottom borders are

one of my favorite treatments.

The finishing on this quilt is planned to be a wide

binding. This will re-enforce the pieced

sashing strip a bit and define the lighter squares so they

are not lost in the binding.

This is not in my repertoire so

it will be a new experience for me.

This top will go to the waiting room with

the current batch of flimsies.

Detailed notes will have to provide

me with direction when it is time quilt

and finish this lovely top.

The white squares are 2" cut and centered

in the column of mixed of blues and grays.

A bit of comparison shows that the

pattern was almost followed!

The side borders were made up of 2" squares

instead of strips.

All the strips were 2" as there

were more blue 2" strips cut in the sewing room stash.

This was such a fun project that I may make

another! Stay tuned for an update!

Stay safe and sew on!

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Tuesday, January 21, 2025

What, More Blues ?

We all seem to have more of one

color and mine appears to be blue!

Here are more scraps waiting for a purpose.

This is what I am trying to recreate:

be similar, with different sized strips,

different color placement and possibly

side borders.

There is a good bunch

of units done up already just waiting for

me to return from the tropics!

So far I have this lovely box of strips done up.

This evening's sew night should help

get a good start on the top!

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Wednesday, January 15, 2025

First of the strings question

The new year is starting off with a bang.

I'm still working on finishing up things from

last year and since my goal this year is to sew up

strips and strings, I'm working on strips and strings.

I'm trying to whittle down my box of leftovers and

bits of blocks and quilt.

There are an assortment of squares made of strings and strips.

The next step is planning out what to make with them.

I took some figuring, but I have 2 good size

twin quilts planned and it should use up

some good bunches of strips.

The first plan is utilizing twelve and a half inch

cut blocks out of color family strips.

There are some red, purple and blue

in the scrap box.

So I decided to make full length strip sets

divided a vertical zinger.

I made fairly good progress on the

blue the first day of stitching.

Let's see how far I get with this plan.

The next evening really turned up the

strips. I found more blue already

pieced so I was able to string all

the columns together.

The design wall is getting layered up,

and the log cabin top is peaking thru!

A few colors are hanging out looking

for a spot to participate.

An old favorite was chosen and

here is the result!

One more top for the quilt rack.

All are waiting for a layer and quilting!

Happy new year and happy stitching !

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Tuesday, January 7, 2025

End of The Stack Log Cabin

Remember all those Log Cabin tops from 2 years ago now?

Well here is the last one.

I had combined all my all my log cabin blocks into one pile.

I thought I could make two quilt tops out of them.

Revaluating, it turns out I really only have enough blocks

to make one small quilt.

However, I never really listen to

what the blocks tell me so

I'm going to turn it into a larger quilt

by trying to design a border. So here we go!

Now it's on the design wall,

so I'm getting getting ready to sew up blocks

to finish this center and increase the size.

There are four blocks that look like

they have a corner arrangement.

Those will be moved out to be corners of the bigger quilt.

Here are all the centers for the additional blocks I'll need.

I'm still using the polka dot centers.

Every time I see a polka dot fabric,

I cut out some centers! Needless to say,

I have a lot of centers.

There may be more polka dot-centered

Log Cabin quilts in my future!

For now I'm finishing up this Log Cabin.

The center squares are all done.

This is the lovely bag of scraps

I'm using to make the edging squares.

Thank you LT!

I wanted an edge looking border so I followed

the court house step pattern,

but used some careful color placement.

One good evening of stitching should

got them done!

The voids are filled and the border looks

like a winning plan.

All pinned to the design wall and

needing a bit of movement. There are a few colors

here that could use better friends!

A New Year's sew along popped up so I was able to finish

the edging square and stitch up the top.

Can anyone see the small revolution

starting near the bottom?

Here is the finished top with a few repositioned blocks.

The border was quite successful.

The four corner blocks worked perfectly,

so that makes it even better!

Only 2 blocks left to decorate the back .

Now to move on to pinning!

It should be a great way to finish out 2024 leftovers!

Stay safe and sew on!

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