Not my usual clear fireworks shots because of a lot of fog! Happy New Year though! This Snowy Egret was really posing for me one afternoon and may end up in a quilt! I haven't done a Snowy Egret quilt yet.
These are two of the three baby quilts that I have made in recent days from leftovers from years past! Of course, the reason I didn't finish them earlier was because I was short one or more of the components. So cut I do and then I am short of some other component and I get bored, so the remaining pieces get stored away for another day when I rediscover them!
I don't usually promote products on my blog, but have to say that I love my Stripology XL ruler which is one of those slotted rulers for doing many cuts at once. I have other rulers but like this one the best as it is extra wide and has a rough bottom so it doesn't slip. I am in the process of making four-patches ind in this photo I have sewed many sets of scrappy combinations. There are 11 strip sets overlapping in this picture, ready for the ruler.
Here I have done the cutting and now have 110 halves for the four patches. I had another 8 strips to go so altogether have 190 halves which will make 95 four patches. All this cutting took about five minutes and is impossibly accurate!
I am auditioning sets here. Altogether, there would be four of these to make up the baby quilt top. (I do need to border these which I will do when I get the batting as they are only 36 inches square and need to be 40 inches square.)
As I have enough for six baby quilts, I am sure I will use this set for at least a couple and maybe turn the individual blocks around so that the darker ones are in the center!
This is another alternative which I have used before. the blocks march in a diagonal across the quilt alternating between darker and lighter. I have made this variation before.
I had a huge pile of the black and white fabrics stored away and hopefully these baby quilts will make a dent in that and also hopefully I won't have to cut more up!!
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