June Leaders and Enders

"Brown Stuff"

My June leaders and enders were little brown three inch

 Nine Patches

in civil war reproduction fabrics

for my Whirl quilt.

I think there's 42 of them. 

And sew on...

 

Using More Reward Points (A New Start)

I needed a break from all of this month's hearts, pinks and other sweet stuff that has been the theme here in my sewing room so I made some 3 inch finished Nine Patches in civil war reproduction fabrics. 

I'm going to make this quilt that I saw on the Temecula Quilt Company blog from the early 1900s (maker and region unknown).   Sheryl is calling it Whirl and making it by hand and welcomed others to sew along.   I'm not going to approach the making of the quilt the same way she is - from the center out so I won't really be sewing along.  I'm first going to make a whole bunch of little nine patches and then assemble the quilt in sections.   I really like the quilt because it is vintage and it is unusual. 

                                 I started out by cutting up a bunch of small chunks of civil war reproduction fabrics into 1.5 inch strips and I'll strip piece some nine patches as leader/enders. 

This year I want to try and finish up lots and lots of UFOs. I'm going to try assigning a theme of the month in order too motivate me to move UFOs that fit that them forward. January's theme was KIDS! KIDS! KIDS! and I moved forward 20 UFOs that fit that theme plus 2 others.  I also told myself that this year for every 5 finishes I could reward myself with 1 new start. So in January I earned 4 reward points.  Of course this is just a game of solitaire and the rules may change at any point. 

My first reward point was used on a Lil' Baskets new start. I posted about that the other day. 

My second reward point was used on a Broken Wheels new start. 

So now I have 1 point left to use on new starts AND if I finish just one more quilt for a total of 25 year to date then that's worth another point! 

Now back to this month's theme of Hearts and Flowers and the Rainbow Scrap Challenge color pink.