downsizing families of elderly quilters. So on 10 March we got a big donation of 4 lovely bins of fabric and parts at our Tuesday at the Grange sit and sew from a lady downsizing her mothers sewing room.
In them were all kinds of goodies and amongst the boxes were finished blocks of various sizes. When we finished sorting everything there was a pile about 8" high, I took those home to see what I could come up with.
I started to organize them from largest to smallest, trowing the 4- 16.5" blocks up on the design wall. hm. found 7- 15.5" blocks put them up there with 2- 13.5" blocks. foo, still not enough for a whole quilt or even enough to fudge it!
After scrap pack, on the last Wednesday of the month I found or was given, another pile of finished blocks. I now had 45 or so 12.5" blocks, I made a 60x60 flimsy and had enough for a 48 x 60" flimsy, mmm, not quite big enough so I added 7- 8.5" blocks down the middle, I've plenty of those. That made that one 50 x 60", hey I have an Idea, Make a gypsy quilt!
I have always wanted to do one and this was the perfect opportunity, I have a tottering stack of finished blocks!
A quick rearrange of the design wall later and here we go!
a few 6.5" 4" 2" and 1.5" insert rows where needed and we have a whole quilt!
This is the finished result, I quilted them all with a loopy pattern, all they need now is binding and these can all go off to community service donations. Woo!
Not bad for a 3 week side quest.
Now back to the dungeon of the Tumbling blocks Quilt. Which is having trouble fitting together *Sigh*😔 I wish I could just say "Play nice!" and they would. Why I think it will work for quilts when it didn't work with children I don't know but one does have to try anyway doesn't one?
