Works in Progress

I'm still playing with the leftover polka dot rectangles (2.5 x 4.5). 

Here you can see my "test" for the second baby/toddler quilt with a layout inspired by a vintage utility quilt.  The bottom group shows four rectangles sewn together.  The middle group shows trimmed 2.5" segments and the upper group shows trimmed 1.5" segments.

Time will tell if I stick to the inspiration quilt's layout that uses only 2.5" segments (resulting in a baby/toddler size) or whether I incorporate both the 2.5" and 1.5" which would yield a slightly larger quilt. 

The rest of the leftover rectangles (in the shoebox) are paired and pinned ready to be stitched together and then paired a second time to create the 4-rectangle sets.  

Originally I planned to use these as leader-enders but now I'm thinking I will just go ahead and get them sewn together and laid out (once a design wall is clear).

Either way, I have named this quilt Ohana (meaning family).

Once Ohana becomes a quilt top, I'll pull out the project box holding the extra polka dot HSTs from the making of Gone Dotty.  These are ready to be laid out and sewn into a quilt top that I'm calling Spots and Dots.

I really want to get all of the polka dot projects to flimsy stage now instead of putting them into the closet for "someday." 

These HSTs for Flaneur have been my leader-ender effort for the past few weeks.  They're all sewn now and I've pressed the first few . . .

But as you can see, there are a lot more that still need to be pressed open since there are nearly 400 HSTs in the layout.

As I was clearing off the top of my sewing table I took the time to stitch up three strip sets for Raconteur, a low volume scrappy trips quilt.  One set is shown here on the cutting table and the remaining strips are grouped and stacked in the shoebox.

I went ahead and made two test blocks to convince myself that the low volume prints would work.  (I've seen lots of photos of LV scrappy trips but I wanted to see blocks using my fabrics before proceeding.)

Raconteur will become one of our January quiet quilts but I'm hopeful it will be finished long before then.

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Little Man will be here this weekend for a sleepover. 

Last Sunday during our weekly family dinner he happily told me that he'd like to make another quilt while he was here.  I had to explain that making a quilt is too big for a weekend so we are going to make a placemat "from scraps" that he can take home and use at his house.

Something tells me he will also want to make two more - one for Mommy and one for Daddy.  Good thing I have lots of scraps.

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Has anyone else encountered the apparently random "sign in with Google" issue when attempting to leave a comment on someone else's blog post?  I have tried several times to "log in" (despite already being logged into Blogger/Google) without success.  So to those who are not receiving comments from me - it isn't that I haven't tried!

Quiltdivajulie

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“We are mosaics – pieces of light, love, history, and stars all glued together with magic and music and words.”

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