Red Centre With A Brown Center

Red Centre With A Brown Center

It's a top!

56 x 64

The quilt is called Red Centre in the book Making Quilts by Kathy Doughty.

Brown Stuff

is the theme in my sewing room this month to move UFOs forward and to whittle down a brown scrap mountain.

Earlier in the month I used my brown scraps to complete a block set of brown Monkey Wrench blocks which was a UFO.   After I made the Monkey Wrench blocks I had a lot of 4.5 inch scrap pieces. I used those pieces to make the fractured units for this top. 

I used a brown scrap with butterflies for my center. 

FYI - In 2017 I made a Red Centre rainbow quilt with a heart center. 

These stack and whack units are a quick and easy make and can be arranged in a variety of ways. Kathy Doughty has several different quilts that use these units in her books. I think it took me longer to cut the pieces and stack and whack them than it did to sew the pieces together and make the top. 

And sew on...

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At The End of This Rainbow is a HEART of Gold

Heart of Gold

It's just a top right now

When finished this will go to my youngest brother who unexpectedly had a quadruple bypass last year shortly after Easter.   It was unexpected because he's not overweight nor does he have high blood pressure.     At any rate I hope this quilt reminds him to stay heart healthy and that I love him and his heart of gold. 

I made these blocks (or I guess I would call them units instead) from 4.5 inch  scraps last year as a Rainbow Scrap Challenge project.    You know (if you are a regular blog reader) I usually don't lay out my quilts (on my floor - no design wall here)  but instead sew blocks together randomly but this rainbow configuration I decided upon meant I had to lay blocks out and then, good golly, Miss Molly, I had to make sure I not only sewed them together correctly but sewed them together pointing in the right direction.  Sheesh!  It didn't all go so smoothly and I have to say I became reacquainted with my old seam ripper that has grown lazy but in the end I have a rainbow trail. 

My inspiration was Kathy Doughty's (of Material Obsession) "Red Centre" quilt. 

This is a UFO I hope to finish up this quarter. Since I now have a top I'm getting closer to that goal!   I'm not sure what I will use for the backing and I hope there's enough rainbow fabric left for the binding.  

Check out what everyone else is doing with their scraps at: 

Oh Scrap! at Quilting is More Fun than Housework. 

My February OMG (One Monthly Goal) is to get this finished!! 

OMG at Elm Street Quilts

I didn't make my February OMG goal so now it's my March (One Monthly Goal) OMG to get this quilt finished!!  

OMG at Elm Street Quilts