Whew, now that the important announcements are over, let's get on with the regular stuff. In the picture above are a few more strips ready to sew. I made a bunch of blocks yesterday. I had been using only batiks in the beginning so yesterday I added a bunch of green, leafy regular fabrics. This is not my final layout, just how they got plopped up on the wall.
This is the bonus tray. I cut one 4.5" strip and one 2.5" strip from each fabric. The 2.5" strip will make 4 blocks if I want that many of that fabric combination. The 4.5" strip has enough squares to make 8 blocks. Since one set of 4 patches gets paired with the 2 dark squares and the next with 2 light squares, I have anywhere from 4-6 squares left over.
On some decorating sites and in some mail order catalogs they will have quilts displayed/for sale and they are just made of squares. We can spend a lot of time looking for a complicated design to make but nothing says "quilt" any better than all squares. I will be making one from all of these squares.Added a few minutes later: Thanks everyone for the great comments about lists and list making. I enjoyed so much seeing how you all deal with it. I like KS's theory that at 2 x 30 or 3 x 20 we should be able to get 2 times or 3 times as much done at 60+.
I think you should give a dollar per visitor....only if I win, of course.....*L*
ReplyDeleteAnd here I am early anyway.
I am very fond of squares. They are easy, no bias edges, combine perfectly and showcase the fabrics. There are endless combination so that you could spend your life only playing with squares.
ReplyDeleteThat tray of squares looks so fabulous. I love looking at quilts of squares!
ReplyDeleteI'm not really a batik person, but I love the look of your 4 patch blocks!
ReplyDeleteThe colors and fabrics look fabulous together.
You are the first site I look at every day. I love everything you do! Great eye for color combinations. You inspire me to greatness and thinking outside the box.
ReplyDelete~Denise
Lockport, NY
Me too... I click on your site first thing, and even when I don't say so, I'm so thankful that you decided to start a blog and am not surprised that it is so successful!
ReplyDeleteCheers to my fav daily inspiration!
You have inspired me to start playing with the batiks that I have accumulated. Thank you.
ReplyDeleteI love how this quilt is coming together. It's so refreshing looking!
ReplyDeleteThis is going to be a stunning quilt.
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Love that you put more green into the quilt and moved the purple one down. But don't mind me, I am so not good at color settings. On another blog you mentioned a book on flower pounding. Can you give me more info (name, author) on it?
ReplyDeleteThanks for being a marvelous online resource, teacher and blogger.
When you chose the fabrics for this quilt were you purposely trying to use fabrics to suggest your front garden in the photo that followed the original strip photo?KS
ReplyDelete50,000...amazing. It's fun to look at your counter and see where they all come from too. Isn't it great to connect with folks from all over the world! btw it's amazing what a few cutting tips will do for a girl! Much less slipping and messed up triangles. Thanks so much for sharing your wisdom and here's to many more...listen for the Champagne bubbles...it's a celebration, you know!
ReplyDeleteI love this quilt, and I check your blog faithfully. I make a lot of quilts with squares, so I share your feelings about them.
ReplyDeleteOK, here I am, the Trouble Maker, wanting to be a winner for the 50,000th visitor. However, your neocounter what I see) is at 38,248! Whats' with that! Maybe that's since a certain date? Oh, gosh, I just HAVTA know these things!
ReplyDeleteIs there another one that we cannot see?
I love the look of this quilt. I love the clean simplicity of the pattern.
ReplyDeleteSquares are the best. Most of my best pieces are just squares.
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