I softened the edges of the “stream” on this.

The patches are all sewn into blocks, and I might be finished moving them around.  Maybe.

Question for you:  This is 36″ x 42″, my typical baby size, but would it make a better wall hanging?

Let me know what you think.

Since my last report, I finished this quilt, and used some white Kona to line curtain valences for my kitchen.

No new fabric!

• This week: + 0 yards, – 4.5 yards
• This year: +40.5 yards, – 59.4 yards
• Net fabric destashed/added this year: 19 yards

And this week’s top is all stash!

Take care, and sew your stash.

I started this baby-size quilt today with beach quilt scraps. That’s all turquoise/ aqua, I dont know why it looks royal blue.

These are 3.5″ squares, next is to add some 2.5″.

Sometimes I’m just happy for small bits of progress!

There were scraps in here from a January quilt, so, yeah, it was time.

All cleaned up, ready to make curtain valences.

Six yards of new fabric arrived, and nothing was finished.

• This week: + 6 yards, – 0 yards
• This year: +40.5 yards, – 55 yards
• Net fabric destashed/added this year: 14.5 yards

Fear not! This baby quilt will be finished soon. It’s #15.

Yesterday I put the borders on the Christmas version of Charlotte’s Mystery Quilt.

I was so pleased to be able to use up some very old Jinny Beyer border fabric. Of course, the fabric had alternating stripes, so I have another set to put on a future quilt…

Currently raining here, breaking up a little heat wave and making it much more comfortable for sewing!

Since my last report, I’ve made these dozen blocks for Kat’s Covered in Love project. They were perfect, because many of the scraps were still on my cutting table.

• This week: + 0 yards, – 1.5 yards
• This year: +34.5 yards, – 55 yards
• Net fabric destashed/added this year: 20.5 yards

So, not much sewing going on. Kitchen renovation and gardening are taking president.

Enjoy your Spring (or Fall)!

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.