And how many left — I’m going to quit counting for now. I worked on the binding today on the Dutch Treat Table Topper and finished it!! Can’t believe I started those blocks about 2 years ago and lost interest in it so quickly. I just usually do not do that. If I ever decided to try another go at these blocks I will enlarge these 4 inch blocks to 6 inches I think. It would make them more manageable for reverse applique. I just could not see leaving these blocks sit aside in a box though for years while I tried to decide if I would ever finish it into the full size quilt top it was supposed to be so I am glad that I decided to make it into a table topper instead.
The top finished at 30 inches by 34 inches after being washed and dried. Little by my standards – other than baby quilts I don’t make them this small normally other than a wall hanging here and there. Even my baby quilts are normally a lot larger than that. The back of the quilt is the darker green batik.
Trying it out on the table with the Christmas Table decoration. I like the size of this as it leaves some wood showing all around it and the wood is nice color and decorative that you want some of it to show.
The whole top.
While my fingers are resting up from quilting for 12 days I thought I would start on the Moda Bake Shop Sampler box that I got awhile ago. I gathered up all of my white fabric that I had fairly good size pieces of and some other yardage to “audition”. I ‘m not sure if I will use the colors that I show below in the photo. I might go for a scrappier look for the 4 patch part of it. But it would be easier to cut strips from the 3 colors I show. The orange, yellow and red are Michael Miller Fairy Frost fabric and I have 2 yards of each color. The link will bring you to all of their colors – every color under the rainbow! (maybe I need to order fat quarters of all the colors!) They shimmer a bit. They have been sitting gathering dust for awhile, I bought them early last year on sale someplace in the internet world – I am not sure which shop. I haven’t been able to figure what project to use them for. I might do all of the four patches with them – but then again I might just cut some strips from them and go totally scrappy by adding more from my stash – only problem with that is I have mainly small pieces and for doing 4 patch – it would be nice to strip piece. The sampler squares will be for the circles.
The pattern, box of sampler squares and fairy frost fabric - white under the pattern.
I will start with some of the circles and kind of go back and forth between machine sewing the 4 patches and appliqueing the circles once I figure out for sure if I am going with these three colors or if I will go scrappy.
