Last night after I posted I went back over the several patterns that had caught my eye almost immediately earlier in the day when I first started looking at patterns.
Thank you everyone for your suggestions. It is always so nice to hear what others would make and you know a lot of you suggested just doing simple blocks and I need simple right now. Sometimes I get caught up in making something challenging and then get tired or frustrated with it — but simple old fashion scrap quilts have always been my favorites. There is just something about the old fashioned scrap quilt that is appealing to me and among all of my quilts they are always the ones I love the best and rarely give away. I think old fashioned scrap quilts are really what got me started quilting in the first place 30 years ago (has it really been that long! of course I didn’t know what I was doing then and really got into it 20 years or so ago) Anyway I digress from the topic -
I have this book:
anyone else have this book? It is full of good old fashioned scrap quilts - some with a little new twist to them, but mainly just nice easy blocks to work with.
There had been a pattern in here that I remembered had caught my eye right after I bought it – but you know we buy so many books and have so many patterns how are we supposed to remember them all LOL. I think what I really need to do is go through one book a week at least to remind myself of what I have! I couldn’t find any links to this pattern so here is the photo from the book – anyhow this is the pattern that I decided to make:
This uses one block in two different sizes - the so very easy Bow Tie Block - which believe it or not I have never made! It is such an easy block - very basic beginner block - but yet this pattern has such a nice layout that it almost looks more difficult than it is. I don't know if I have enough fabric to make it the queen size shown but I am just going to start and see what happens. I might need to pull some out of scrap boxes to fill in if I get close to having enough to make this size as I really like this layout.
There is only one strip of my fabric that I won’t use for it and it was the very lightest of the light strips – it is mainly white with a small red flower print on it but it will blend in to the background too much so that strip will be put in with my scraps. I know I have some small flower prints among my scraps that I can use if needed to fill in and match with these fabrics.
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