First 2 quilt tops for January 2024.............

I sewed this top together yesterday morning.  It is 40" x 60".  It is mostly Kaffe Fassett fabric, many very early prints because the squares were cut many years ago.  There are a couple Martha Negley prints too.  She was a friend of Kaffe's back in the early years of Kaffe's designing and some of her fabrics were featured in Kaffe's early books.

I decided this top doesn't need a border so it is a finished top too.  It is 37.5" x 57".  It would made a great toddler quilt for the big brother or sister of a new baby who is getting a quilt.  There are quite a few novelty prints used in it.

The red 4 patches are sewn into a table runner and I'm auditioning the Tiddlywinks fabric by Kaffe as a possible strip on the 2 narrow sides.  I just have to decide how long I want it to be.

Another box of cut squares and sewn triangle squares was the next to be played with.  This pattern is called Donut Hole on a lot of blogs and on Pinterest.  25 of these 7.5" blocks would make a nice baby quilt.  These are just loose pieces on the design wall. no blocks are sewn.

This is another block layout that I like and it would be a 10" block when sewn.

This is the next quilt top (scroll down to quit tops) to send out for quilting.  The bottom left fabric is what I was going to use for backing.  I had 2 pieces and thought they were both 3 yards. When I was pressing the second piece I knew it was longer than the first one.  I measured and one is 2.75 yards.  I looked for another print I could add and found 3 yards of the one on the right but decided I don't want 2 different fabrics on the back.  I have a wide back in Brandon Mably's Onion Rings that I will use instead.  I need to press it and cut down to size today.  I guess I never did a post on this as a finished quilt top.  It was just included in the monthly recap the morning after I finished sewing it.  This post shows when I was starting it, the inspiration quilt, and the first 2 blocks.