Still Making "Comfort" Quilts for Charity With All My Already Cut Strips and Pieces!!

 

This is my latest Quilt As You Go quilt using more of those brown 2 inch strips and a bunch of "frankenbatting". Each block is 10 inches square.  I have since bound it with a medium brown fabric which finished it off nicely.  The quilt is 60 inches by 80 inches and will be donated this coming Thursday to my guild up here.  As I don't have batting up here and my guild in the south provides batting for donation quilts, I will again be making a ton of tops and take them south.  I prefer machine quilting on my Juki but it had some serious issues so I took it in for repair and I still haven't gotten it back and I may have to ask them to replace the machine as I am beginning to think they lost it!  

This is one block of a new bunch of stack and whack blocks.  The picture shows the block in its best light!  All the blocks are pretty dark although they all have good patterning so trying to decide how to best present them so 31 sit on my design wall waiting for inspiration.  They are only 4 inches finished.  I have been thinking bags or purses at this point as they needed to be seen closer up than a quilt althogh I have also considered using in a jacket of some sort  We shall see.  I atisll have a bunch of fabric that i haven't made into squares yet.

This was a far more successful choice for making the stack and whack blocks.  It is a fairly small print but amazingly the repeat was 16 inches which is rare for a small  print. 

Here are the 70 blocks that I constructed.

This is the latest one I am constructing using triangles leftover from a quilt I made almost 30 uears ago.  This is about the 4th quilt I have made from these triangles.  I am going to make this quilt to be full bed sized.  The center of each "bagel" will be yellow and i haven't decided whether  to use anything but the plain bege in the center of the "stars".  Ufrotunately, the bag of purples doesn't seem to be getting any smaller!

 

Back to the North for Awhile!

On my way back north, I stopped in Pennsylvania at my friend Dianne's and we did a day of dyeing.  We both wanted to have light values and this was the result.  I was pretty happy with it and I am sure I will be able to use  For so long, I have done a lot of dyeing things pretty dark. 

We started with Sun Yellow, Golden Yellow, Tangerine, Grass Green and Neutral Navy with 1 per cent solutions  We then overdyed with Intense Blue, Navy, Turquoise, Mixing Red and Dark Green (all ProChem colors).  The second set was half per cent solutions.  I think the tangerine and Intense Blue might have been a little over the hill as they seemed lighter than usual which was okay!

Altogether, we each ended up with 35 yards of dyed fabric.  We had all different kinds of fabrics -- a couple of my really light ones obviously were not PFD!  That is okay as I have found out that you get really even color with these iffy fabrics!  Each "pot" had 12 yards of fabric in them so we used old empty kitty litter boxes of which I have a bundle!!

I am finally using up the incredible amount of PFD fabrics I  had accumulated over the years but still have some!!