Reciprocity Pt. 1 - How It Happened

In late 2017 I gathered all the random 2.5" strips 

from various spots in the studio and put them into a big box.

(strips cut for bindings but not used,

projects that were started but abandoned, etc.)

Some of those strips were cut into rectangles/squares

 that became this quilt top originally called Mercyful One 

but now known as Comfortable.

It waited in the to-be-quilted closet for almost a year

but is now bordered and paired with a three-fabric  

pieced backing - all of which has been pin-basted for quilting. 

More of the 2.5" squares were used to piece 

a double four patch table topper named Reciprocity

that would later become one of my

Kitchen Table quilt projects.

More of the low volumes were cut into squares

that became four patches in Squares Aplenty.

(top donated to Covered in Love)

Last December I used still more of the low volume 

strips and squares in the scrappy back of Zephyr.

(Zephyr is hanging out in the to-be-quilted closet)

The last of the 2.5" strips were used 

to piece the top for Bemused -

our Kitchen Table Quilt for January 2020.

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After almost a year of waiting,

the blocks for Reciprocity's top and back 

were finally sewn together last month.

The quilting is done and on Wednesday, 

I'll share photos of the finished quilt.

Quiltdivajulie

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“Listening is not a reaction, it is a connection.  Listening to a conversation or a story, we don’t so much respond as join in – become part of the action.”

Ursula K. Le Guin