Little Bits.....: Done, well almost

I worked on my BOM over the week-end because the weather was awful starting on Friday. We got the pansies, geraniums and begonias all planted Friday morning and then the heaven's opened up! Boy, did they open.

I got the two last blocks done that were posted on our guild website. They went together beautifully. One only took me about 3/4 of an hour.

This is called Stars and Stripes. I like this one cause it was so easy to do.

This is Woven Star. A bit more work, but it was worth it.

I redesigned the last block. I don't like doing pinwheels so I did a simple four patch. Same colour scheme, just the centre is different.

Well, I did it....................twice! The first one I printed off was for a finished 6" block. I never noticed on the print out. How dumb is that? It looks good though, doesn't it? I'll put it in the "orphan" box. Someday, I'm going to have a b-i-g quilt with all those blocks.

One hour later I had it re-done. I forgot to take a picture of it with the pattern, but here it is in its proper place in the row. I made the four patch first, then pinned it in the centre and then continued on with the paper piecing. It worked out well.

I'm doing deep purple sashing and white/red cornerstones. That same white/red will be the the inner border and then this bright red fabric will finish it off. The binding? I don't know yet. I haven't decided.

I want to get this finished -- well finished as far as I can go. My border fabric is still on its way here from Kentucky. It was shipped March 28th. (Oops, make that April 28th) Where is it? Who knows? I could walk there faster.

So, I changed my mind. I do that quite often. I found my order at Hancocks and I only ordered one yard of the red. I bought it for the border on a Christmas quilt so I must have that first. I'll use this for a tiny inner border and then purple and then red for the binding. That will also help to make the quilt 36" x 36" without too large a border.