Making Up For Lost Time -- But First the Houses and Some Current Stuff!

I finally finished the three Habitat for Humanity tops which I will quilt when I get back down south as the club provides me with batting.  These are the three.  The first two have 2 small trees and one wide one and the third ones has 2 wide ones and 1 small one in each row.  I randomly made trees until I ran out of fabric so wanted to use what I had.  I did have to make a couple of more trees to complete that quilt though.

 

In trying to destash, I came across a bunch of mandalas I did a few years ago.  I am planning to sell a bunch of my hand dyes and mandalas at our club garage sale in June -- I will be selling them super cheap and probably donating the rest that I don't sell.  These are all 45 x 45 inches.  These were some of the first ones I tried with ice dyeing quite a few years ago.

This afternoon I decided it was time to start putting together the Farmer's Wife blocks that I did.  I have two sets of close to 100 each.  I decided I would put half in point and half as is and started the process this afternoon.  There was A LOT of trial and error trying to decide what size to cut the half square triangles and then what size to make the borders on the regular blocks.  I guessed wrong a number of times.  The blocks will be 8 x 8 inches when finished.  Without the borders, they are 6 1/2 x 6 1/2.  The half squaree triangles were made from 5 1/2 in squares and the borders will need to be 1 in wide finished or 1 1/2 inch strips.  I can't begin to tell you how many times I did this simple task wrong.  Should have done it at the beginning of sewing, not at the end!

Tomorrow and the next couple of days will be pictures of quilts from my last Genesee Valley Quilt Club Meeting.