A thousand squares...
Whewf!
Would you believe it is not nearly enough?
Today, I decided to start on a quilt top that I want to be mostly pink and blue. So I started to pick through the stacks of already cut squares and there was hardly any BLUE squares cut ! How is that possible? Greens, Reds, Orange, Black and Purple, but not a one of any real BLUE... That meant I needed to go back to my scrap box and pull out the blues. There were a few -- quite a few actually. I just didn't get to them in my first session or two of cutting.
So a bit more cutting of blue scraps and some mixing them up with a variety of light colour or almost white scraps. I cut from some yardage 24 - 6 and a half inch pink squares, it is actually a 50's reprint and combined with the blues should make a pretty quilt.
This past week I got the first quilt top done. It is a fairly simple 16 patch with sashing and turned out quite nice...
This is a quick quilt top to put together and it measures about 48 inches by 60 inches. I spent a couple of mornings sewing the pieces together and it is ALMOST a CHARM quilt, except there are a couple of the prints repeated, maybe about a half dozen, can you find the repeats? As an extra for this quilt top I also cut and pressed 250 inches of binding.
Number One Done -- nine more to go!
Will talk again next Monday and report on any progress on this project...
