After a multi-year hiatus from quilting, I decided to dig out my fabric and have a little fun. I'm trying not to buy any fabric other than solids for sashing/binding or backing. I sorted through about a million 6-1/2" squares from the RCTQ Baseball Swap of many years past and challenged myself to see what I could do with a few of them. I took all of my black-on-white and white-on-black squares (not as many as I needed; had to cheat and buy a couple of FQs) and added one red square for a little spice. I hand stitched them into flying geese in a layout around a central red unit, used a solid black border, hand quilted, and voila! A 12"x12" mini-quilt. That's the good part. Unfortunately, I can tell I am quite out of practice. A few seams didn't quite line up, and it had an overall crooked look to it. A good application of the steam iron finally pressed that thing flat! Fortunately for all of you, I don't own a digital camera, so you won't have to look at it. But, hey, finished is good! At least that's what I'm telling myself....
For my next project, I took nine of the squares, made nine 4" Ohio Star blocks, added black sashing and borders and have almost completed a red/green table topper. It only lacks quilting in the borders and the binding. Then I will have finished TWO projects in the same year! Just might be a new world's record for me!
Frances (who would be a founding member of Procrastinators Anonymous, but keeps putting it off!)