Last Monday in February

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I have been clearing up the scraps and putting things away this last week more than sewing. Among the things discovered were these five completed blocks from a pattern by Canadian designer Margot Languedoc called Cotton Garden.

I love love love the look!

I thought about throwing them into the strippy, briefly, and if I change my mind or get distracted again, well, that is always an option.

The project as designed requires 30 x 8" blocks set with sashing and when I started it I thought it was ideal to showcase the delicious 10" Tonga Treat pre-cuts in Pomegranate I have been hoarding.

Not a difficult block to make and I don't recall how I got distracted. Anyway goals for this week:

• make another five Cotton Garden blocks
• make border, piece the backing and make the bias binding for Domiciles

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Design Wall Monday

Very little on my design wall this Monday and this is a good thing! It means I am getting stuff done. Top left are four blocks for, one day, a scrappy blues Ocean wave quilt. They just sit there from week to week because I like looking at them.

Top right, I have added quite a few 2-1/2" triangles to my ongoing 'leaders & enders' Thousands of Triangles quilt. All the triangles are bonus triangles from various projects; most recently the little red houses blocks. I join them into sets of sixteen to make an eight inch block. If I live long enough one day I will have a bed size quilt.

Bottom left are two batik windmill blocks. This is my present to myself for being a good girl and completing two UFOs, I get to create another one, but only 4 blocks, then it is back to turning UFPs into happy dances! Woo-hoo!

Mt Domiciles top is pieced, all that remains to do is make a narrow border, piece the backing and make the bias binding.

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Monday Design Wall

Having cleared all the works in not very much progress off my design wall, this is the current project to be finished before I even look at anything else! It is my Domiciles house quilt, pattern by Aardvark Quilts, available here with free S & H.

This pattern is not the tiny paper pieced houses that had such a following last year. These blocks are 6" finished, quite small enough, thank you

I am having difficulty keeping blocks up on the design wall.

Kitty Bella has developed a passion for the yellow glass head pins I use. As fast as I put blocks up she takes them down and runs off with the pins.

I had six rows arranged before she fixed it! Grrrr!

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Design wall Monday

My design wall is like my brain these days, scattered. See many more design walls here on Patchwork Times.

At the very top of my wall are four blocks of a leader and ender project inspired by an antique baby quilt I saw at the Vermillion Quilt Show, shown below.

My tribute to this unknown quilter is made (mostly so far) from 2" finished off-cut triangles from the scrappy red and green Poinsettia Block quilt on the left of my design wall in the picture above. Inspired, not a copy, my triangles all march in the same direction. I will make more as the mood strikes.

To the right of the Poinsettia quilt are more leaders and enders in "stamps" and snowball blocks.

All the fabrics in this project except the Kaufman Kona Snow used in the snowballs are from several years of rootling through Lori's cutting room trash box. I cut most of my gleanings into 2-1/2" squares. I also cut 1-1/2" and 3-1/2" squares.

The triangles in the corners of the snowballs are 3-1/4" squares cut once diagonally and then trimmed. The plan is for a throw consisting of  10" blocks set 5 x 7 with a plain inner border and probably a pieced checkerboard outer border, if I have enough squares.

Finally the Poinsettia, I had an urge to make something in red and green and saw a picture on the Interwebs. I later discovered the original pattern is a freebie from Timeless Treasures which you can download and print here. Needless to say mine is not made from the pattern but that works for me.

I should confess there is yet another project hidden under the poinsettia, did I mention I am somewhat scattered these days?


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Design Wall Monday

I have the attention span of a flea these days. This simple project has been very soothing and I am enjoying it.

This is a controlled palette scrappy square in a square throw. It will finish to 58" x 76" including 2" borders.

Greens and blues only and 80% from stash, both mine and Lori's. The blocks are 6" finished and it is made from 2-1/2" strips.

As usual, my obsession is to make no two blocks alike, which is why I had to go buy a few FQ. That is my excuse and I am sticking to it.

The ugly blocks at the top are from a pattern called Nana's Squares and they are my current leaders and enders. Made mostly from fabric rescued from the trash box, which is why they are ugly. The block is pretty cool..

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