When you work on long term quilts, it seems as if you never finish anything. The Dear Jane quilt border is worked on in the daytime and the Hexagon Star is worked on in the evening while watching TV.

The Dear Jane was a finished quilt without the border, but I decided that it needed the border to look better.

There are 52 pieced triangles and 48 plain triangles in the border, along with the four corners. Most of the pieced triangles have to be paper pieced. Some are appliqued and some have curved piecing. They will all be finished in the potholder method before placing them around the center quilt. When I piece a block, I make a backing out of the colored fabric and if there is enough fabric left, I piece two plain triangles. Triangles of batting are also cut at this time. All the units are in a box waiting to be hand quilted and bound.

Hopefully, when the triangles are ready to be quilted, the Star Hexagon will be finished. Then, my evening work will change from Dear Jane to the Star Hexagon.

The Star Hexagon is coming slowly. I have finished a few star points. Several more to go. There are ten points on the star. Almost half of them are finished, but not on the main body of the quilt yet.

The SAHRR is finished as is the Mile A Minute quilt that was made out of the leftover scraps.

I have also sewed the binding on two quilts that came back from the long arm quilter. They were made with the batch of quilts that I made to use up the Japanese fabric. Thankfully, there are just scraps of this fabric left in the Mile A Minute bin.

Maybe by Summer, I can move on to something else.

Have a great day and happy quilting.

The clue for row 6 for the 2024 SAHRR is numbers and letters. Fifty-four forty and fight came into my mind immediately. Then I thought of a nine patch or a four patch. Letters didn’t even enter my mind. All the rows after the center were based on a three-inch square. Where this was the last row, I could make a six-inch square and it would fit. Fifty-four forty or fight won, and it is a nice corner block.

There was one ten inch by twelve inch piece of fabric that had to go into the border. That left some three inch by six inch spaces to fill. There was just enough hand dyed fabric left to fill this space.

The quilt top is finished. It is a mass of orange and purple. Really not the colors that I usually work with. The quilting will bring it all together.

This is what is left from the sample and the hand dyed.

I decided to make a Mile A Minute quilt with the scraps, instead of storing them in a box, never to be seen again.

The small scraps are in the box. Strips are on the left, and partially finished squares are on the right. When sewing a Mile A Minute, you take a strip and small scrap without looking and sew them together.

Two finished Mile A Minute blocks. I will keep making them until all the fabric is used up. It will make another baby quilt. The size really doesn’t matter. That’s the way of a Mile A Minute quilt. Nothing matters except a straight seam and pressing. It is a great way to use all the leftover partially filled bobbins.

Have a great day and happy quilting.