Sixteen Patches (Top 1 of 3)

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Sixteen Patch and Stars

40 x 56

This month I've been working on emptying boxes. I have a lot of them full of this and that cluttering up my little sewing space. I had a small box of Sixteen Patches and Four Patches made of random 2.5 inch squares. Most came from other folks and have accumulated over time.  I decided to see how many Sixteen Patches I could make with the Four Patches.   Then I decided to make them into three different comfort quilts for kids.  I sketched out my three different quilt ideas and was short 2 Sixteen Patches so made a couple from my 2.5 inch squares. 

This little quilt alternates the Sixteen Patches with Sawtooth Stars. I have a bin of 4 inch finished orphan blocks (again, most given to me by others over time) and found enough scrappy little Windmill (Four Patch Rail?) blocks to use for the Star centers. Someone gave me a bolt of orange fabric so that made a nice background for the Stars. 

I dug into my box of 2.5 inch width scraps for the Star points. I cut the orange Flying Geese bodies from orange using an Easy Angle Companion ruler and cut the Flying Geese wings from 2.5 inch width scraps long enough to cut 8 triangles with the Easy Angle ruler. 

So, this is top #1 of 3. I hope to complete the two other tops this week but no guarantees...I'm still in gardening mode and have a lot to do outside. I love flowers as much as I love scraps!

Stay tuned!

And sew on...

Monday Musings at Brenda's Songbird Designs

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I finished a book! - Blood Hollow by William Kent Kruger. It is book 4 of 22 of the Cork O'Connor Mystery series.   After reading a WWII non fiction and a WWII historical fiction book (mentioned in previous blog posts) I needed a little lighter reading.