Lucky Dad

 

I finished Lisa's flimsy, adding sashing and borders. We auditioned different colors and different pieced borders and settled on this dark brown grunge. It'll go in the pile downstairs here increasing the odds that it'll get quilted this year. This will go to dad. He liked how colorful it was. 

Many of us are dealing with a major heat wave. We have A/C so I'm spending lots of time in the sewing room. I hope everybody can stay comfortable. 

Quilt parts

My newest top. I slapped on a blue border and called it done. 

This is the double 4-patch I made from some of the 2" squares saved over time. The shoebox is still quite full of them mostly lighter but also some short strip ends.

As usual I did not have a solid plan when I started it. Once 4-patches were made I realized they'd pair up perfectly with 3 1/2" squares. Instead of digging out that box yet again I reached for the parts department. I'd just been there and remembered the  donated gold squares. Also found were the donated blue strips used for sashing. It was meant to be. 

Some might call this a free quilt. What I like best is I didn't have to cut anything except a few sashing pieces and the border. 

It didn't make much of a dent in the stash and that's ok. That's not what it's all about.

Plans now are to finish to flimsy stage several sets of blocks. Since the blocks are done I expect it to go fast. 

Fun with Wedges

 Maybe they are trapezoids to you, maybe wedges or decapitated triangles. I had quite a pile remaining after I changed my mind about the first quilt I planned. After I abandoned those plans I decided on a simple pinwheel to use the pieces. With many still in a box I was in the mood to play with them again when I opened the box of batik scraps. Here are 7 blocks I made where there were 4 matching pieces. 

These blocks were to go in the orphan pile but then I thought I ought to just do a sampler when I remembered these other batik orphans. I made these years ago with intentions of making a sampler then. 

So maybe just 1 or 2 more and I can assemble a small sampler. No doubt there are more scraps that would be happy with the blocks on this post. I do love batiks. I hope to finish it this time.

There were pairs of matching  batik wedges so planned another quilt with those.

Random block making

 I am seeing space opening up on my shelf of boxes of kits and scraps. That inspires me to look for more to finish up and move out of there. Granted a few are kits to take to the Community Center. 

Several boxes are where I file my scraps by size. I also have a box of scraps of thirtysomething triangle leftovers. Sorting those I came up with the makings of a small quilt. Those can wait as a "kit". There were some where there was some quantity to make a few random blocks for the orphan pile but I only made the bottom 2 shown below. 

Then I moved to the box of batik scraps. The triangles in the top 2 blocks were in there. They weren't mine and why I didn't put them together instead of putting them in the box Is beyond me. 

I enjoy piecing random blocks. Just sewing pieces together into familiar units and making blocks without a plan. Sampler block surprise. I decided to continue as dd was sitting next to me and making sampler blocks that she drew up. She did pretty darn good without a pattern and just started sewing triangles again after doing a few 25 years ago. These are hers. 

Maybe it's obvious she's my daughter. 

More from me later.