Next 2 inch square top

I am reporting on my current project involving scrap 2 inch squares.  I had two shoeboxes full of short and long strips and miscellaneous squares. 

To back up, the shoeboxes looked like this a few weeks ago, overflowing:

I cut strips from old old stash to use it up.  I then made a pattern called Clean Up from Quilted Twins, as outlined in THIS POST.

I used up many of the long 2 inch strips, sewing them together, then cross cutting them.  The (almost) final top looks like this:

I added some more 2 inch squares to the right and left hand sides, to make the quilt top a little wider.

Now the shoe boxes looked like this:

The strips are a little fluffed up, I'll admit.  Still so much fabric!  What to do?  Go back to the Quilted Twins website and find another pattern I guess.  I picked Light and Dark, but, I used leftover backing fabric for my 'darks'.  I had some sage green fabric, not quite wide enough for the quilt projects I do.

(The batting is still attached - I removed it).  I alternated the sage green fabric with my scraps, making strip sets and cross cutting them (right):

On the left: individually cut scraps alternating with the sage green fabric.  

One block, laid out:

And four blocks together:

I am using up the scraps at a slower rate with this pattern.  I now have 6 blocks done, but each block finishes at 15 inches, so I have a ways to go.  How much of those 2 inch scraps will I use up?  Will I run out of sage green fabric?  We shall see.

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Viridian

Hollyhocks: A quilting UFO prevention

 Good day, and welcome to my blog.  Today I am reporting a finish.  It is bound and this prevents this quilt from becoming a UFO - an unfinished object.

I had purchased the pattern for this quilt a long time ago (it's copyrighted 2002!), and it languished in my quilting space.  This year I bought some batik fabrics, and it was time to sew it up.

I blogged about it this summer: https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2024/08/hollyhocks-now-top.html

The finished top was sent to the long armer I use - always a wonderful job - and it's back and bound.

A close up of the quilting pattern:

The pattern is Posy Patch/Hollyhocks. By U Can 2, Quick and Easy quilts by Eileen Sullivan copyright 2002.  Quilt finishes about 50 by 60 inches, I think.

As it is done, it does not carry over into next year.  Remember I play the UFO game as mentioned in my last post. 

It's Thanksgiving week here in the USA.  Hope you have a great one.

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Viridian

UFO Finish: Half square triangles

 Hello, and welcome to my blog!

I can report on the finish of a UFO (Un-Finished Object).  It is part of a game I play - but more on that below.

A series of half square triangle blocks and shirting fabrics in-between:

It is a pattern from the book Preserving History by Julie Hendrickson.  I decided against borders and it is now 56 by 74 inches in size.

Each shirting square and half square triangle finishes at 2.5 inches square!

I blogged about its progress:  https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2024/06/current-progress-on-reproduction-project.html

and the start of the project in Dec. 2022:  https://viridian61.blogspot.com/2022/12/two-new-starts.html 

A close up of the fabrics, including shirting fabrics used is below.  I have so many reproduction fabrics.  I am imagining a woman using fabrics like these in 1880 - 1890.

Now for the game:  I am part of an online quilting group (all quilting chat, no politics, no religion) called Stashbusters.  We aim to curb new purchases and bust our stash, sharing patterns and finishes.  Some of us sign up for the UFO game.  Each person declares how many UFO's they have, and sends in two fat quarters and $2 as an entry fee.  An intrepid member keeps track of us and our finishes.  As people finish a UFO they drop to the bottom of the list.  Everyone else rises one or more positions.  When your name reaches the top, you are queen of the UFO's and reign for a week, or until you have a finish.  No finish?  A penalty fat quarter is mailed in.  And the fat quarters?  Every time you have a finish your name goes "in the hat", and every quarter and at the end of the year, a random name is drawn to win a subset of the submitted fabric.

I aim to NOT become queen!  I was #4 on the list and so I trimmed and bound this UFO to have a finish, and drop to the bottom of the list.

Would you like to join us?  Check out the home page:  https://groups.io/g/stashbusters

I do have permission from the list owners to post this.

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Viridian

"Clean up" project: Almost a top

Welcome to my blog.  I was able to find time this past week to continue on this project, that I blogged about previously.

It's almost a top!

What I have, laid out on the brown carpet on my basement floor.  The pattern is called Clean Up, and is found HERE on the Quilted Twins website.

 Each scrap square here finishes at 1.5 inches.

Here you can see the thin white border, then the black border around each big block of little squares.  Then a sashing made of more 1.5 inch blocks.

This pattern uses a lot of scraps, but I have more in the shoe boxes to be used.

Linking up with Midweek Makers, Wednesday Wait Loss, Needle and Thread Thursday, Put your Foot Down at the Quiltery, Nina-Marie, Finished or Not at Alycia Quilts, Oh Scrap at Quilting is more Fun than Housework.

I have a page on Facebook: keep up with my infrequent quilt and stamp posts at https://www.facebook.com/pages/Viridian61/347674418583948?ref=hl

Viridian