{Post #45} B & B Center is Finished!

When one buys fabric according to pattern requirements, there is always so much left over.  So when I bought the fabrics for this quilt (which I affectionately call the B & B quilt--not bed and breakfast...blue and brown!), I got just a teensy bit more than the pattern called for and have plenty of fabric for two more rows, making the center 60" x 70" instead of 44" x 70".  I also got a smackerel more border fabric than it called for and have enough for the bigger quilt, plus the border will be an inch wider.  Win, win!!

I already have the quilting design planned out...one long feather in the zigzag and just meandering in the churn dash blocks. 

Here it is...

I.  love.  it. 

~Joan

{Post #44} B & B for Now

Here is the Bed and Breakfast quilt with an extra row (on the right).  I figured I had enough fabric to add yet another row.  The uneven ending does not do it for me.  As it is here, it is 52" x 70".  Adding one more row of eight on the right will make it about 60" x 70", then one inner border. 

This setting has been running through my mind for using other blocks.  Does anyone have a non-paper-piecing pattern for a 6" finished Lemoyne Star block??  I know it has set-in seams, but I'm not scared!!

~Joan, who is going to the Shelby quilt show in about 30 minutes

{Post #43} B & B Update

Above is the start and finish of today's sewing.  I have three rows put together, and there are two more to go.  This is coming along nicely.

~Joan

{Post #42} B & B Quilt

I rarely use anything but Thimbleberries fabric, mostly because I have over a hundred bolts of it at my house.  Once upon a time years ago I saw an antique quilt I wanted to copy.  It had an antique setting of a pink zigzag between brown churn dash blocks.  I went to Mary Jo's and could not find a pink I liked.  But I was attracted to this blue print.  It was out of character for me, but I bought all the fabric I needed (including backing and binding) to make this quilt.  <gasp>

I call it the B & B quilt because it's blue and brown.  So original.

Emily (newly-married daughter) painted her new bedroom a light blue and has all chocolate brown bedding.  She saw the kit when I started working on it and asked if I would make it for her.  I don't remember what I told her, but I HAVE been working on it!  All the blocks are pieced, and I started adding the blue zigzags this AM. 

Here is what I have so far...

This will be my piecing project for the next little bit.  It seems like things come up all the time to bump the current most important project out of line.  I often wonder how fast things would be finished if I just worked on one at a time.  But how fun would that be?

~Joan