Basket Weave Top

It's a top!

Basket Weave

39 x 45.5

In a previous blog post I mentioned that I met my goal for the only block I was making from scraps in my 4 inch width scrap box. Most of the scraps in there have been given to me over time. When I receive a box of scraps I take my little six inch ruler and measure the width of scraps and put them into the appropriate scrap box. Larger scraps I call chunks are sorted and stored by color. I try to use smaller scraps as I receive them in one of the many blocks I have going but with my husband John's health problems off and on I sometimes don't have enough time to sew all the scraps as I receive them. 

Well, now that you see my 4 inch width scrap box overfloweth I decided to see what could be made with the contents and hopefully soon just end up storing a baggie of 4 inch squares. 

I pulled out all of the blue scraps in the 4 inch width scrap box and made a Four Patch top. 

After that I still had some blue 4 inch width scraps. I found enough pieces I could cut into 4 x 7 rectangles to make some Basket Weave blocks. 

I was recently gifted a bolt of orange fabric and since orange is the complement of blue I decided to use orange 2 x 7 strips for the sides of my Basket Weave blocks. 

And sew on...

Finished Or Not Finished Friday at Alycia Quilts

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I finished a book - Remember Us by Robert Edsel with Brett Witter. Oh my goodness this was a good book! I highly recommend it.  It is a WWII non-fiction.

Summary from the Robert M Edsel website: 

"Remember Us is a compelling ensemble narrative that chronicles the lives of twelve central characters over a six-year span including Lieutenant Colonel Robert Cole, the first member of the 101st Airborne to receive the Medal of Honor; Sergeant Jeff Wiggins of the 960th Quartermaster Company, who escaped the poverty and racism of Alabama only to face a new indignity: digging graves in wartime Europe; and Frieda van Schäik, a teenager who falls in love with an American soldier. 

"In this rich, dramatic, and suspenseful story, both the horrors of war and the transcendent power of gratitude are captured, showcasing the extraordinary measures the Dutch have taken to thank their liberators. Drawing on never-before-seen letters, diaries, and other historical records, Edsel shows the painful price of freedom, on the battlefields and inside American homes.  

"Remember Us is exactly the book we need—a reminder that grief is universal, that humanity knows no national or racial boundaries, and that we all want to be remembered, somehow, someway, by somebody.  "

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In the flower gardens some different types of Aquilegia (Columbine) are blooming as well as different types of Alliums. 

And sow on...