Introducing Pretty in Pink

I had a big pile of leftover side triangles after making the blocks for Kefi.

I also had a big pile of pink side triangles that were meant for Luciferous but were voted off the island.

I really didn't want to store them for "someday" so I turned them into half-rectangle-triangle blocks (HRTs for short).

But then what?

I had 96 facing in one direction and 89 facing in the opposite.  You can see above what I decided.

(just ignore the scribbled out areas - those ideas didn't fly)

I sorted the HRTs into sets of four to make forty blocks to be laid out eight wide x five long.

(each HRT finishes at 3" x 6" so each block finishes at 6" x 12")

And yes, I was planning to work on Luciferous (plates in the background) but I clearly got distracted.

Here are the first eight blocks on the design wall with one of the yellow columns for Luciferous on the right.

And I even have the perfect yardage to back this quilt that will be named Pretty in Pink (hmmm - obviously the name of the fabric somehow became the name of the quilt).

I will get these blocks sewn together, laid out, and clipped for webbing after I get back to work on Luciferous.

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He's officially six years old.

(photo taken at the neighborhood playground when he and his class took their daily walk)

And if you supersize the photo, you can read at least most of the very cool text on his birthday shirt.

 

Oh my, how far he has come since that very first day of preschool . . . 

. . . Kindergarten starts on the 15th.

Quiltdivajulie

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