The little bin is empty. All of the bits and pieces are either in a quilt or a placemat. I did add other fabrics to the pieces and combine some of them. In all, I made five community quilts and twenty-five meals on wheels placemats.
Today, I cut all the backings and battings for the quilts. My plan is to package them one at a time and quilt them. Some of the battings are whole pieces and some are Frankenstein batting.
Twenty of the placemats are finished. One more needs the binding tacked down. The other ones are watermelons and lemons. I sewed them together in the pillowcase method. After I sew the opening, they need a little quilting to be finished. These were pieced long ago. I have no idea where I got the pattern or where it is. They should be easy to replicate. It’s all in the fabric.
I’ve had a basket block that was left over from another quilt. I was given the little basket blocks. The baskets are not the same but together they make a pretty quilt.
There were six red stars and two blue stars in the bin. I’ve found that when there are eight small blocks, you can add seven alternate blocks and sashing, and the quilt will be large enough.
There were several 2 1/2″ squares in the bin. It was just enough to make eight 16 patches. Also in the bin was seven six sided pieces. They were similar colors to the patches. I added oversized pieces around the edges and then squared them up to the same size as the sixteen patch blocks. The eight/seven format worked for this quilt also.
This is my favorite. The house that I lived in, before I moved to where I live now, had a small wall near the ceiling. the adjoining rooms had different ceiling heights. I made the paper pieced village to go from one side of the room to the other on that wall. The color of the background is really a pretty forest green. It didn’t photograph well. Originally, I was going to make placemats, but decided that the village should stay together.
It’s amazing how many quilts can be in a little bin. I have another larger bin that has a lot of mystery pieces in it. That will have to wait until I finish quilting this project and send the quilts and placemats on their way.
The first sewing instructions for the Meadow Mist Magnificent Mystery quilt has come. There are 56 quarter square triangles. The pieces are cut oversize and trimmed down. Making the squares was easy. I sewed in short time periods. The time-consuming part is trimming them down to 4 1/2″. I trim a few every time that I go into the sewing room. Then I go on to something else. They will be done long before the deadline of the first Thursday of the month. I like the method of making this mystery quilt. The main cutting is all done before sewing starts. Everything is labeled in baggies. The little labels are provided in the download. Every year when the new Meadow Mist mystery quilt comes, I say that I’m not going to make it. But every year I give in and really enjoy the journey.
Have a great day and happy quilting.
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