Hello Cuties, I wanted to or felt the need to, do some piecework. Since I already had most of these scrappy 5 inch squares I decided to make this. Everything was from my stash so it’s not color coordinated. I did have my dark and lights better positioned, but somewhere between the layout and sewing machine, this is where they are-lol This came out 70 x 89 but I know I will lose some by the time I quilt it and wash. I am showing the backside of my pinked seam allowances after I see the seams. I like a neat back and no fraying or raveling, even though nobody else sees. I wish the yellow was as light as the wrong side is. Have a nice day- Toogie

by toogie 24 Apr 2023

I have the quilt top laid out in this picture, on my living room or family room floor. I don’t have a wall space large enough for a design wall, so I usually lay the pieces out on a queen bed in the spare bedroom. After sewn together I either take a picture on the bed or the floor of the living room.

by toogie 23 Apr 2023

I can usually tell the right from the wrong sides except for batiks, those are hard for me. My mother used to say feel the solid fabric if you can't tell. The right side was usually smoother. Then if you can't tell, it shouldn't matter. Thanks, I am glad you like it as I was uncertain about the yellow.

by toogie 22 Apr 2023

Thank you, it has a few purple squares in it. 🥰

by toogie 22 Apr 2023

J, my hubby and I like scrappy too. Ashley says it looks vintage so wants Eva’s made like this. I will have to Google the size of an extra long twin bc if she comes back here for college that’s what she will need in the dorm. She has to go home in June as her Visa runs out and according to exchange student guidelines, but she has been taking the ACT and plans on coming back here to university as she calls it.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Thank you, less than a week. We’ve only been home a week today. I think I started it Sunday and finished last night but I still have to quilt it. Also, my colored 5 inch squares were mostly already cut. I did have to cut my whites, yellows and my 9 patch squares.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Thank you!

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Thanks!

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Thank you sweet Laura. Another quilter asked me why I pink the edges. I told her I didn’t want my seam allowances raveling or fraying out, after I went to so much work. I just have grew up learning to edge finish. That’s how I like to sew. Am I saying it’s wrong to do any other way? No, I’m saying this is how I like to finish.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Thank you, I’ll try to remember to post once I quilt it. I won’t be quilting it for a while though. My husband and also a friend just reminded me of a quilt I want to make Eva, my daughters foreign exchange student before she goes home to Spain. Her birthday is May1st, graduation is in May and she leaves in June so I need to get it done.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

I call this therapy. Things aren’t close to ‘right’ but that’s life. Hopefully I am in a better state to cope. As soon as we got home, one of my sister-in-law’s called to say Mertie ( the niece that son just died the same day our brother-in-law died) has cancer. They found 4 brain tumors and in her lungs. Brenda, Mertie’s sister, had just told me Mertie was having some test ran. Mertie looked bad before Kyle died but since his loss, she naturally has looked worse from grieving. We are just heartbroken.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Nan my husband likes scrap quilts too. I like most of them myself. I have heard hubby say a hundred times when I need just the right fabric, old people didn’t match things up, they used what they had. Depending on the top I make, I do like
a background fabric to be all the same sometimes and for that I need yardage. I bought a bolt of white when I bought this yellow bolt and a bolt of 108 in blue. I still have some blue and yellow, but I need another bolt of white.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Thanks I’m glad you like it. I wasn’t sure about using the yellow/gold, but I needed enough of ‘something’ to go around the outer edge and I knew I had enough of this. Like I told Karen, this is my therapy when things are on my mind.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Good for you! I’m glad you got bit by the quilting bug-lol I have never took a sewing, quilting or smocking class in my life but I would be interested in a long arm quilting class. I know I’ll never take one but I would like to see if I liked or was able to load one and stand up quilting for so long. I think it would be fun but the nearest place is an hour and a half drive just one way for me. Have fun learning and I know you will be great at it. You have the interest, so you will do fine.

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

Thank you for all your kind words and thoughts. I had to smile about the stray threads on the back. It always makes me think of something a woman, Patricia, I worked with said.
Patricia, me and another lady all grew up together and still live in the same area. We all cross stitched a lot at the time. Patricia asked me one day if I ever looked at the backside of ‘nameless’ cross stitch. I said No, I haven’t. She said it looked like a birds nest! I just never looked before because I thought everyone’s was neat as the front. Next time I did look and even though Patricia told me, I guess I still was shocked-lol

by toogie 21 Apr 2023

When some quilters finish a project, they are ready to get rid of the leftover pieces and they know I will figure out something to do with them, so they pass them on. I just received a small package in the mail from a quilter. She had made a hexagon quilt and sent me her trimmings. My daughter said mom, what can you even do with that? I told her I am hoping to get a 2.5 in square from the cut off pieces. If not, they may go in to a crazy patch. Thanks