My design wall is loaded with blocks made with Betty’s 2 1/2” squares. She gifted me a large bag of left over squares from a project she started and after one quilt she was done, and passed them to me. After several years I finally just started sewing them together with a loose rule of light and dark.
I will play with the placement of the 16 patch blocks before sewing them into the top.
It’s been a wonderful project for playing with my sewing toys as I find the process very relaxing…I hadn’t really been thinking of a what’s next project until I came across a picture from Gigi’s Thimble http://www.gigisthimble.com/2021/12/postage-stamp-quilt.html
When I first began making quilts…almost 40 years ago…I was first drawn to quilting by scrap quilts. I also remember wondering how I would ever accumulate enough fabric to make something like the above quilt!
Well after almost 40 years of quilt making I now know how and I have enough to make many!
And so this project began….first I made a smaller block with 1 1/2” squares…
Which would be ok but would take a lot longer than I think I want this project to take.
After watching some tutorials on postage stamp quilts I have decided on a variation of Kimberly Jolly’s tutorial on youtube.
And so it begins!
This will take some time as I have other projects on the go as well. My piecing time is usually limited to an hour or so in the evenings as my customer quilts come first.
It will be an easy project to take and work on at the Rec centre on Mondays which my plan is to add back into my routine…
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