as I look out my window…
and the forecast isn’t looking any better, any time soon.
So I am piecing quilt tops. My plan was to use up a bunch of these really old scraps. This is starting to sound like an annual theme to me. I’ve focussed on using up mauves with Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend and then pastels with Sweet Strings. This time the focus was on purples but it looks like I actually pulled a lot of blues, too. It feels like Time Traveling because many/most of these date back to the 1980s and have been seen in dozens of quilts and even some clothes! This is lap quilt sized coming in at 60″ x 72″.
And as long as I have all this fabric scattered about… I decided to play with 1 1/2″ finished squares and some 3″ finished half squared triangle blocks. I know this is a classic quilt pattern, I just can’t remember its name. Do you know?
So that’s what I’m doing, while I’m suffering from cabin fever, how about you???
Sewfrench 
gorgeous colours and bbrrrrrrrr – looks cold outside !
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I envy you the snow. We got a little over the weekend and it’s slowly but surely meltin. 😦
I am curious as to the name of that pattern! Gorgeous way of using up some scraps!
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Oh, Kathy, you were one of the people I was hoping could tell me the name of this block! Thanks! And the snow is pretty, for a little while, especially when you don’t have to get out in it. If I have my way dinner plans are make do, with whatever we have on hand, for the unforeseeable future!
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Fabric & color make the winter bright!
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Winter beauty! 🙂 The fabrics are so pretty…is it an around the block quilt? m.b.
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The first one is a scrappy version of an Around the World quilt. The second one is the one I can’t find the name of. I know I didn’t just dream it up, there have been way to many quilters before me to have done that!
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Your scrappy squares are fabulous. I can not wait to see this quilt grow.
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Your scrappy WIP look fab. I too am suffering from cabin fever but for different reasons than yours. I wish we had a bit of snow falling here in the UK. Thanks for sharing your progress while inspiring us to use up our scraps.
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What patience can produce. It’s beautiful. Blessings, Mtetar
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I love to do half square triangles and I have a big popcorn tin of squares that are already cut. They aren’t 2 inches as I thought but a little larger.
I need to figure out….if I make 9 patches then what size squares I need to make the half square triangles. I can also ask at the quilt shop or at guild for guidance.
I just really want to get some projects going with the little squares!
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Myself, I’m already tired of the snow and cold!
I love your HST scrappy quilt. It’s just so different yet simple. Love it.
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