After a week of building my little Village houses, I switched it up yesterday. I was feeling the burden of having too many projects started and not enough of them being finished!!
I needed to get that Prairie Vine quilt together. Above are the 16 blocks I finished earlier in the month; they have been hanging out on the design wall ever since. Holding me back was making 25 9-patch blocks out of 1.5-inch squares. Ugh; so tiny! Well, I figured out a quicker way to accomplish the task that didn't involve cutting 225 tiny squares. I sewed short lengths of 1.5-inch strips together, using scraps from the Prairie Vine blocks, and mix-and-matched for a scrappy result. It went really well.
Above are my scrappy units ready to be stitched in very random fashion. I did the job in five groups of five, and that made it quite simple. I had them together in no time at all.
Next on the agenda was to cut the sashing strips, and I already had the fabric pulled - this very vintage Judy Rothermel piece from a line called Civil War which had been aging in the stash for far too long. And now I am in the midst of putting all these pieces together. Hope you will come back later in the week to see the results of this labor. I will go ahead and put on the border, too, but then I have the applique stuff to do. This step might take me awhile...
Happy Quilting, Friends!
I love the fabrics and colors in your blocks. I can't wait to see the quilt progress. Great job.
ReplyDeleteI love your fabrics in this project!!! It is going to be gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteThe sashing fabric looks so pretty. This is going to be a lovely quilt.
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