Design Wall Monday

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I managed to get the large size green blocks complete, and have started on the smaller size framed ones.  These will alternate around the quilt centre.  All of the strips came from my two "2 inch strip bins", leftovers from other projects.  The background white has a faint green botanical print, which I thought went well with the theme of the quilt.  I still haven't decided what colour to make the remaining borders, and I have been making pinwheel blocks from the corner cut-offs as well, so they may show themselves as well.  This quilt is being planned as I go.....
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Centre of the pinwheel flower quilt

I managed to get the blocks sewn together, along with the setting triangles.  I really like this pattern, but have decided to make a larger quilt.  
 Instead of making more of the same, I'm planning to make the remaining blocks in shades of green.  I think it will look like leaves surrounding the flowers (I hope).  These are some of  my pre-cut left-over 2 inch strips.  I keep using scraps, but the containers don't seem to become any more empty - must be quilt magic!

Design Wall Monday

I managed to get the pieced borders sewn together.  The stars will be in all four corners.  I also have the other borders cut ready to sew as well as the binding prepared.  The top is stitched together in one direction, and is pinned waiting to stitch in the other.  I am a minimalist where pins are concerned, but I do like the pieces to match and dislike becoming pointless!

Border Completed

I stitched the border squares together, alternating a white block with a purple block and with one facing up and one down.  I decided to keep the white edge toward the quilt centre, so I added a white border first, then the pieced border, then the purple border.
The picture was taken after I had pin-basted my quilt, and had stitched "in the ditch" around the basic shapes.  I then added a scrappy binding, made from left-over 2 1/2 inch strips.  Now on to the remaining quilting.

Christmas Lights Pt 2

This is one of the finished block 2's.  Of course, it uses more leaders and enders!  Good thing I have a seemingly endless supply.  This set of blocks also used lots of my stock of red scrap strips as well.