WITB #7 - Unchained Melody

It's a top!

Unchained Melody 

(I like that song as sung by the Righteous Brothers)

55 x 70

The other day I posed the question WITB? 

(What's in the box of 3 inch width scraps?)

This is comfort quilt #7 ! 

And I still have some scraps in that box!  

For this one I used the cream, tan, brown 3 inch width partial strips and squares. 

I did a rough sketch of a quilt to use those scraps. 

Then I cut 616 (22 across and 28 down) 3 inch squares from the scraps in the box.   I also collected triangles in all colors of the rainbow from my box of crumb pieces. 

I sorted my squares into light, medium and dark. Then I made one row at a time keeping in mind that I wanted the rows to transition top to bottom from lighter to darker squares.  And the little triangles sewn to the corners of the squares I kept in rainbow order across the rows to form chains across the quilt. 

When I got to the darker squares I tried to keep the reddish/rust browns at the beginning of the rows and the darker squares toward the end of the rows. 

And sew on...

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CELEBRATE! (my word of the year)

Sept.. 17 - A beautiful harvest moon which was also a supermoon. I didn't stay up late enough to see if I could see the partial eclipse of the moon. 

Sept. 18 - Finished a book! - Damage Control by Robert Dugoni. It's a mystery thriller.. A woman has quite a few problems going on in her life yet finds time to help a detective solve the mystery of the death of her brother. She also manages to resolve a few of her problems before the end of the book. 

Sept. 19 - Onions! In between fictional books I've been reading a little bit now and then of Herbal Antibiotics; What Big Pharma Doesn't Want You To Know by Mary Jones. In Chapter 6 - Top 45 Wondrous Herbs Onions and Garlic is listed as #1.  "The sulphur compounds in onions and garlic are a key ingredient in antibiotics. They destroy bad bacteria and kill off infections."  I remember reading elsewhere that during the Spanish Flu epidemic it was recommended to eat more onions to ward off the flu.   Not sure if any of that is true; however, I do eat a lot of onions and garlic every day and don't remember the last time I've had the flu or a cold. (I've never had a flu shot and only (regretfully) had the first two covid vaccinations and will not get anymore. I'm not totally against vaccines - just flu/covid for me)  Well, anyway...I do grow my own onions too. A few years ago I started growing them from plants (not sets) I purchase from Dixondale Farms.   Since hubby no longer is able to eat garden produce (he has a G-tube) I cut down on the number of onions I plant. I tried a long day onion sampler this year of Walla Walla, a white onion, Ringmaster, a yellow onion, and Redwing, a red onion. I ate a lot of them as green onions. I should have watered them a little more than I did to produce larger onions but I'm pleased with my harvest that should last me through the winter.   Oh, and one last thing about onions...did you know that white onions are usually sweeter and the best to eat raw? They have less sulphur content.     I keep a pot of canola oil on my stove and make myself some onion rings almost every other day. I love them! 

Sept. 20 - Quilts Beyond Borders!   The latest blog post shows some of my donated quilts and the places they are going -- Comfort Cases and Jeremiah's Hope.  (My quilts show "Cathy L" as the maker in the blog post).