Good Morning Quilters!
While away at a retreat, I worked on several UFOs and put them on a design board there, so I could take pictures for you.
(1) Using up old, old scraps (some from my Mom's stash) to make some baby quilts. I used most of the old scraps, the ugly scraps, and inserted some children's prints and polka dots to make it cheery. I think I will choose a solid background, add these strips, and make two baby quilts from this.
Close up of one strip: (I will trim the sides to make them even before using them)
(2) A UFO of fall leaf prints and fall colors in 16 patches of half-square triangles:
This looks so "blah" on the design wall, that I decided to add a dark (maybe forest green) sashing and borders to it. Also, with 32 blocks, I eliminated the two right side ones as "too light" and won't use them. Leaving it 5 blocks by 6 blocks size. So it is still a UFO, but further along, with all the blocks assembled.
(3) Another fall quilt - a Maple Leaf block project:
Everything except the far left column was my UFO. I am now making 50 more blocks to make it much larger. The column at the left are seven blocks made this week, plus there are 43 more leaf blocks now prepped to put together into nine patches. Notice the leaf next to the bottom one in the left column? I didn't discover until I took a picture that I have assembled the middle row of the nine patches backward. My last unsewing and sewing at the retreat was to fix that block. A picture sure points out the mistakes quickly, doesn't it?
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