One down, one to go

  I actually got more accomplished this past week than I expected.  Sir Old Man did very good with the cataract surgery ....and he is a much better patient than I expected him to be. LOL.....luckily the "put in eye drops schedule" is much simpler now than a few years ago, I heard.  So I managed to quilt up the strippy quilt that had been waiting it's turn under the needle.

  A partial jelly roll was gifted to me, and I added about a dozen fabrics from my stash to put this together.  Mostly browns, black print, a bit of blue and cream create a cozy, stay at home feeling. 














  For the binding I found a brown paisley in the stash and was just short of enough  fabric to completely bind.  So I decided to make a flange binding.  That allowed me to make narrower cuts of the paisley, add a neutral strip for the flange  to make it all work.   I like the finished look. 

I used the tutorial found at Missouri Star for the binding.

  And one to go is the Boxed Squares of floral fabrics.   I originally planned to use straight line quilting making diagonal X's thru the boxes, but now I am having other thoughts.

  The pattern is hard, straight lines, and maybe I need to use a curved quilting to soften the look.  Not much  of any motif will show against the busy fabric, so a general meandering would work. 

 I had questions this week about my fabrics, so here are a couple of close ups of the floral fabrics I use all the time.    These should give you an idea of what to look for when searching for fabrics.  You can't just buy a pre-cut package of a fabric line and get all usable floral fabrics.  In a pre-cut pack, you might get one or two.  So I rarely buy pre-cuts.   Fat quarters are the best size for accumulating a floral collection, I think. 

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Happy stitching.