First off is the pic of my new bag/purse that I told about in my last entry. I've been using it for about a week now and I'm really liking it... not too big, not too small and plenty of room for everything I sometimes feel the need to carry with me.
After finishing the bag, I decided to start working on ANYTHING in the hopes that it would distract me enough so that I could find that missing pattern and pattern book. No such luck but here's the top I did manage to do.
A couple of years ago - maybe three?, I went to a quilt show in Jackson with Vicki, Joyce and Cathy V.... Someone from the show was selling jelly rolls for $10 each; the proceeds went to their charity quilt fund, I believe. I'm assuming that one or more members of the guild donated strips to make the jelly rolls. Vicki and I each bought one; I think she made her's into a 1600 quilt top and, after it was quilted, donated it to Siren.
Well, mine has been sitting here waiting for inspiration.. I finally found it. It's called Rail on a Row... laptop size. I found some blue fabric of my own to do the inner border and then found the OLD ( so old some was faded and had to be tossed) burgundy and blue floral for the outer borders.
The next day, I decided to work on the Bright Scrappy Throw. The blocks were pieced and I had enough for the large lap quilt, but I had thought I'd like to make it bigger - like maybe queen size.... nixed that idea the other day and stitched the blocks together to make this one...
I do love this pattern. A few years ago I had made it using scraps and had a polka dot on black print for the sashing and borders - very loosely quilted since it was before I had my long arm. So cozy. I used it here on the couch in the family room until recently when I decided to wash it ( again) and pack it away for a few months. Replaced it with my Goodnight Irene quilt for now.
I haven't taken a pic of what I've been working on the past two days... just of some of the fabrics - did those only because I'm not quite sure what I want to use.
This was my initial choice... the white are squares set on point and then made square with the green print... the red for sashing & inner border and the last print for the outer borders.
Now I'm wondering if that circle print will work.... the colors are good - it's the print itself that has me wondering. Another option is this....
There will still be the white squares on point... only change is switching white for the red and then the red for the outer border. That choice seems to be the 'safest' - but is it what I want?? I still have another day or so before I finish the blocks and have to make a decision.
I kind of broke my rule about only using fabrics from my stash with this one - first off, because I don't have yardage of white.. then I found that I didn't have yardage to use for the sashing and borders. It's going to be an adorable baby quilt - which will probably go in my stash/collection for a future great grandbaby. Well, at least the green print and the fabrics I'm using for the motifs are from the stash :).
Need to go find something for dinner... hope to finish the remaining blocks for this quilt tonight - if not tonight, then definitely tomorrow.
TTYL
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