Happy Monday – 29 April 2024 – Post Number 707

I do believe that summer is quickly approaching here in South Texas. A little rain out of all the storms yesterday and into the 90’s today.

Today we are heading to the road matériels yard to decide which type to spread on the driveway. Of course a short trip to HEB and UPS. Doesn’t this sound exciting? Maybe someday I will be writing from “The Duck”!

On the quilting front! Since I have buried the Tulips, I went through some of my books from Jo Morton, Kim Dheil, Susan Smith and a few other quilting books for my next project I wanted to work on. In Susan Smiths Quiltmania book, Somewhat in the Middle. I loved the quilt called Mothers and Daughters with the small Star in the middle of the Block. There were other patterns that I will keep close by for later on, but decided that I wanted to make this quilt, so I tested the block. It is a very easy block and goes quickly, especially with the new ruler I had mentioned in an earlier post.

After making the block I decided that this Star block would look good with the Churn Dash blocks that I had made in the summer of 2022 when I joined in with one of the Bloggers in a Churn Dash QAL. I made the blocks 6” rather than 8” using my 1930’s fabrics and was finished 80 blocks by the end of August 2022. They were put them away while I started the massive “quilting catchup” project and other things. I knew that the 80 blocks would yield at least 2 quilts, but I was not sure how I would set them in a quilt.

Here are the stacks of Churn Dash blocks that I will be working with.

I had one idea to make a “large” 9 patch block, but realized that I could not do that due to limited fabric left of the left over 1930 fabric for each Churndash blocks.

I then decided that I would make a quilt with 8 rows of 8 blocks with the first quilt. Here are a few pictures of my progress.

I tried staggering the blocks in each row, but ended up with the 8 blocks of each color. I also tried to put them on point, but that was not the effect I wanted either. So the above picture is where I am heading.

Well, time to run and have some “out of the house” time and hurry back to the Studio to make another row of Churn Dash and Star blocks. I am really enjoying being back in the Studio and happy to be deeply involved in a project!

Have a happy week,

Hugs,

Nanette

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