Saturday, October 29, 2016

2016, October. small quilts for the door, and a huge project

 This is the little quilt to hang on my door for Halloween.  I was going to sew a pumpkin, but I had these pretty, small 9 patches in the right color.  So I just  made the scary face to go on the 9 patches.
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 This is the Thanksgiving quilt for the door.  The turkey is a partial Dresden plate using, guess what, some of my plaid fabric.  HAPPY??? THANKSGIVING???

This is a small, throw size quilt that has taken years to put together.  The small triangle squares are the cut-offs from a huge number of blocks.  Corners cut from flying geese, or from snowball blocks.  Usually these small corners are just thrown away as scraps, but I've been saving them for years.  I had to square them off to a little less than 1 1/2 inches, very tedious.  I sewed them together without regard to matching points or saving points and added the large half square triangles to expand what I had.  The back is this pretty stripe I found.