Showing posts with label contessa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label contessa. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

The Pink Contessa


I'm only showing 8 blocks of the completed 24 block set.
Blocks finish at 10 inches. Quilt will finish at 40 x 60.
This is going into the SAR (Some Assembly Required) bin to be assembled into a top at a future date.

I decided to make these blocks because I had noticed a lot of pinks in my 2.5 inch width scrap bin. 


(It is actually what I call a Basket Weave pattern).

BUT
I didn't use a jellyroll. 
I didn't make as many blocks.
I didn't make stripsets of 5 WOF strips (because I didn't have that many). Instead I made 4 strip sets of 3 or 4 strips and then cut them into the 6.5 inch sections and added  2.5 x 6.5 inch rectangle(s) (from 2.5 inch width scrap bin) to the ends of each section. 

Yesterday I showed the blue version of Contessa and I think I will have enough for a green Contessa one of these days.

And sew on...

Going where the scraps take me and making comfort quilts one scrap at a time.  

Monday, June 23, 2025

Contessa - A Complete Block Set


I'm only showing 12 blocks of the completed 24 block set.
Blocks finish at 10 inches. Quilt will finish at 40 x 60.
This is going into the SAR (Some Assembly Required) bin to be assembled into a top at a future date.

I decided to make these blocks because I had noticed a lot of blues and purples in my 2.5 inch width scrap bin. 


(It is actually what I call a Basket Weave pattern).

BUT
I didn't use a jellyroll. 
I didn't make as many blocks.
I didn't make stripsets of 5 WOF strips (because I didn't have that many). Instead I made 4 strip sets of 4 strips and then cut them into the 6.5 inch sections and added a 2.5 x 6.5 inch rectangle (from 2.5 inch width scrap bin) to the ends of each section. 

And sew on...

Going where the scraps take me and making comfort quilts one scrap at a time.