It's a Flimsy! Fall Festival

Fall Festival

60 x 75

It's a Flimsy!

Several years ago I participated in several themed Chunky Churn Dash swaps - patriotic, 30s, fall, floral.  I wanted to challenge myself to set them all differently with alternate blocks.  This is quilt #3 using the fall themed blocks.   I originally intended to make a bigger quilt and use two different 15 inch blocks like above - one with four Chunky Churn blocks, geese with dark corners for sashing, 3 inch 9 patch for center and another with four framed four patches and light corners on the geese sashing.   I intended to make 18 of each and set them 6 x 6. 

After I made 18 of the blocks using all my Chunky Churn Dash blocks I didn't feel like making 16 more blocks (I made two for a test run) using framed four patches so decided to make a quilt with 20 blocks instead - 18 with Chunky Churns and 2 with Framed Four Patches. 

 The two blocks with the Framed Four Patches blend in but also stand out. 

 I love quilts with fall colors. 

It looks like a pile of leaves I'd like to jump into. 

 And there's some secondary patterns.

I kind of like that too. 

I have a flannel sheet I might use for the backing. I think I will have to let out the side seams because the width of the quilt top fits just inside those two seams with no fabric left to spare and I think I need a little wiggle room in order to quilt this on my DSM. 

From the Parts Department: Fall Festival

Fall Festival

4 - 15 inch blocks so far

Back in 2015 I participated in several themed Chunky Churn Dash swaps - Patriotic, Floral, 30s Reproductions and Fall.   My intent was to see how many different layouts I could come up with for the Chunky Churn Dashes.  It was sort of a self-imposed challenge. I blogged about it back in October 2015.   So far I have only finished a quilt from the Patriotic blocks - a Quilt of Valor for my brother-in-law. 

Fast forward to this year and Kaja ( of Sew Slowly blog and Ad Hoc Improv Quilting monthly linky co-hostess)  issued a quarterly challenge to use alternate blocks so I dug out the floral themed Chunky Churns and then dug into the Parts Department for some fall themed four patches and framed them so they were the same six inch size as the CCDs.   I also found some fall themed 3 inch 9 patches for block centers.  I didn't have any Flying Geese in the Parts Dept. so made some alternating dark and light cornered 1.5 x 3 inch geese (finished size).   

I came up with two different but similar 15 inch blocks. 

Parts Dept.

So now I guess I'll see how many CCDs I have and make some dark cornered flying geese so I can make up those blocks.   Then I'll know how many four patches I need to frame and how many light corned flying geese I need to make for the alternate block.