Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz bemoans the fact that he has only straw instead of a brain. Well, I don't believe I've any straw in my head, but my brain certainly does fail me at times.
For ages, I've had plans to make a quilt designed by Pam Buda/Heartspun Quilts.
For ages, the pattern has been pinned to my design wall.
For ages, I have been erroneously referring to Grist Mill, when in fact, it's called Cotton Ridge Farm.
It wasn't until I reviewed my goals list for this year that I realized my mistake. I have been thinking the pattern I borrowed was called Grist Mill, another Pam Buda pattern. Both quilts have very similar vibes, and are made with similar lines of fabrics. I wrote about my goals in January and did not have the pattern with me, since we were in Florida.
Enter Scarecrow Brain.
I thought I was right. I really did. But, no. I grabbed the wrong image from the internet to use. Click here to see the post with my goals.
If you clicked the Heartspun link, you can definitely see that the two quilts look similar. I may go ahead and order Grist Mill just to have it and yes, to even MAKE IT!! I believe I am going to have plenty of my selected fabrics left over, so it seems like a good idea.
Enough on my (lack of) brain activity. I got over my error faster than it has taken me to write all this up. *grin*
I am happy as a clam to be piecing Cotton Ridge Farm blocks out of these fabrics. I had a few more fabrics selected (seen in that link above), but limiting the variety works for the pieced blocks.
Three dark fabrics will suffice, and I've got plenty of each one, so I am not concerned about saving enough for the sawtooth borders.
For the background fabrics in the pieced blocks, I have added variety. The pattern requires 30 blocks, and I will sprinkle all these into the mix. One of those yellows will also be the setting blocks; I will decide which one later.
Stitching these blocks in all the variety of combinations has kept me quite entertained at the sewing machine in the last week. Making 2 or 3 or 4 blocks a day, I've already finished over half the blocks.
Soon, I will share.
Happy Quilting, Friends!
Jayne
Good morning! No matter the name, she will be a gorgeous quilt! I clicked back and looked at your original post and saw that you had plans to make Wensleydale. I wanted to make sure that you had watched the Quilted Chicken videos using 6.25” strips. For me, it was a huge game saver! Check them out on YouTube. I swapped out fat quarters for the strips and cut the fat quarters into 6.25” strips and it worked perfectly fine, but I am sure that I will have more leftover fabric this way. Happy sewing!
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