This year’s beach quilt is…different.  I wanted to do something different from the framed squares I often do. 

I had about a quarter yard left of most of the fabrics I wanted to use, and tried to make the most of them.  I wanted to make Disappearing Four Patches and do a color wash effect, but keep the patches large to show the prints.

I cut 8.5″ patches and sewed them into 16.5″ blocks. When I cut and resewed them to “disappear” them, they became 15.5″ blocks. (Why do all the tutorials say you will lose two inches?) Thus the finished quilt is about 45″ x 60″.

For the record, there is no way to make a color wash from a dozen giant 15″ blocks. I tried them every which way (and made and discarded a few spares), and finally settled on this. It’s pretty, but not exactly what I was going for.

Ah, well.

Plugging away at this version of the Mystery.

Here are two of the three new backing fabrics that came in this week. Extra points if you can guess which new tops these are for!

I have a finish! I quilted a new Beach Quilt that I’ll show more of soon.

• This week: + 9 yards, – 6.5 yards
• This year: +34.5 yards, – 50 yards
• Net fabric destashed/added this year: 15.5 yards

I think this is really last week’s Report, but it doesn’t matter. The weeks of sewing most days but never finishing anything are starting to run together. I did donate six yards again, so the totals stay the same.

• This week: + 6 yards, – 6 yards
• This year: +25.5 yards, -43.5 yards
• Net fabric destashed/added this year: 18 yards

Close to being finished with several tops that are all Stash! Take care.