SAHRR Row 6

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.