A Finish

It's a finish!

67.5 x 82.5

I finished the top back in March 2019. 

It seems like this year I have been quilting most of the flimsies I made in 2019. Someday maybe I will get caught up. 

I used two different blocks with batiks that were swapped long ago - maybe as far back as 2010 or earlier. 

One of the blocks is a batik Happy Block with 4 inch centers and 2.5 inch sides that finishes at 7.5 inches. 

The other block is a trimmed down Framed Four Patch with 4.5 center and 2.5 inch sides in black trimmed down to an 8 inch unfinished block so I could pair them up with the smaller Happy Blocks. 

It's quilted with some horizontal and vertical lines and even has some LOVE quilted in. 

The back.

Now it is ready for giving or gifting. Or it might go into a "hope chest pile". I just realized my granddaughters will turn 17 this year and will soon be going off to college and/or setting up their own households. It has been my plan to have a pile of things like quilts, potholders, crocheted dishcloths, embroidered dish towels, pillowcases, etc. for them to choose from when the need arises. 

 

It's a Flimsy! #103a - Batik Bazaar

 It's a flimsy!

Batik Bazaar 

The name was suggested in a comment by Sandy

72 x 96

 These 24 inch Massachusetts block instructions can be found at Quilter's Cache. 

 The centers of these blocks, framed four patches, were from a long ago swap.  The Massachusetts block calls for an 8.5 inch center so I used a framed four patch instead. 

 I was lucky to have enough larger pieces of batiks to finish these blocks. Most of my batiks are 1/4 and 1/2 yard pieces and I don't have many of those. 

This is one of two UFOs I moved forward to flimsy stage this month. 

 Our Stashbusters Yahoo Group draws several random numbers to work on each month in order to move forward our UFOs.   This month #3 was one of the numbers drawn and if you have over 100 UFOs (guilty as charged) then you can add 100 to that number for a bonus number to work on. 

I had #103 listed as Batik Framed Four Patches. 

But when I went to that project box I also found Batik Happy Blocks in the box. And that UFO I did not have listed. The Framed Four Patches were 8.5 inches unfinished and the Batik Happies were 8 inches unfinished.   So I had two UFOs to work on - #103a and #103b.   I'm happy to say that my project box is now empty and those old UFOs are now flimsies. 

I previously blogged about 103b which will probably be a donation quilt if one of my granddaughters doesn't snag it first because black is their new pink. 

Looking forward to April's random numbers to see what I might be working on moving forward! 

#103a - Still Working on It

 UFO #103 is what I've been working on this month. Surprise, surprise...when I went to assess what was needed to take the UFO to flimsy stage I found that UFO #103 was actually two different UFOs that used batiks -Framed Four Patches and Happy Blocks.  

So I hope to have two flimsies by month end - #103a and #103b. 

For this one - #103a- I'm using 12 of the Framed Four Patches for the centers of 24 inch Massachusetts blocks. 

Only three more blocks to go!

Tomorrow or the next day I hope to show you the #103b flimsy.