Bramble Blooms QAL - Second Border Added

Bramble Blooms #1

52 x 56

This is the first quilt top in a series of 3 in a quilt along hosted by Audrey at Quilty Folk. 

The second border prompt is "Put together a border that includes adding 4-patch, 9-patch, 16-patch or even larger patchwork blocks. You can set your blocks side by side {continuous block layout} or 'on point'. This border can be any width you like. It does not need to have the patchwork blocks throughout--use as few or as many patch blocks as you think will look good!"

Before I added my sixteen patch blocks I added a multicolor green coping border to bring it up to a width and length divisible by 2 since I was going to be using 2 inch (finished) squares and QSTs in my sixteen patch blocks.  

Since the base colors I chose to use for all the Bramble Blooms series of quilts are orange and lime green (mostly scraps) and since the accent color I added to use in my Bramble Blooms quilt #1 is purple those are the colors I used for my sixteen patch blocks.   

I decided to make QSTs since they looked kind of like butterflies and I had appliqued butterflies in the first border. I decided to use mostly lime green for the squares and in all the QSTs because I had a lot of lime green 2.5 inch width scraps I could use that were leftover from making Anvil blocks. 

I don't usually audition anything. I usually just think of something in my mind and go for it. I don't have a design wall.  If I did I would never like anything I see, second guess myself and dither my time away. 

So it is always fun to see how the top looks when I hang it out on the line for photos. 

I think I want this to be a little longer and was thinking of taking off the corner stones and just adding another row of sixteen patches to top and bottom but for now I am going to leave it as is and wait until I finish Bramble Blooms #2 and #3 tops to make a decision. 

More about the Bramble Blooms QAL.

My previous blog posts about the Bramble Blooms QAL.

Oh Scrap! at Quilting Is More Fun Than Housework

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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

April 19 - Asparagus! I have a prolific little patch and I have been eating asparagus every day in some form or another.  I love it roasted with a little olive oil and salt and pepper. I use the leftovers chilled in a salad of spring greens, goat cheese, candied pecans and cranberries with balsamic vinegar dressing. A few times I've added leftover chicken breast slices to the salad. I've had a few fritattas with asparagus and tonight I'm having cream of asparagus soup. 

April 20 - A little surprise package of fabric scraps. Oh, happy day!