Snore post for non-crafters... you are warned!
I pieced baby quilts all day today. I worked on a red and white one until I got tired of looking at red, so I switched back to the never-ending postage stamp quilt, that so far only had 8x8 (64 squares in a 10-inch square, found my old twosies sack (where 2 small squares were sewn together in a package that contains several thousand pairs which were partly sewn before moving from Wyoming to the Piney Woods of Texas, and another group that contains several more thousand squares are somewhere around here. I have enough to make several huge quilts, but choose to make small quilts with controlled areas of borders, and sometimes I place the squares to resemble cross stitch quilt stuff.
I worked till nearly midnight on the postage stamps, not knowing what time it was, Earlier today, 9 rows of red and white bricks with royal blue "grout" between the perky red and white prints cut 5.5"x3" (baby brick size when sewn together) I worked until I had only one of each print Seems there were 56 bricks when I counted them, but may have added more after that. I can't wait to finish it, but I need to make 8 more rows if there are going to be 17 rows of 6 bricks separated by the royal blue grout, which is looking better than any brick quilts I've made so far.
I located another 30 pieces of red and white print, and I'm pretty sure there are another 20 or 30 pieces in the Wyoming room, where all the fabric there is mostly what I brought to Texas from my store in Wyoming. Unfortunately, most of that was red-reds, and not red and white prints. Will have to do a lot of digging to find them. There must be 50 boxes in that little room full of odds and ends, and some really pretty pieces as well.
Well, I found a red and white brick quilt, but not light red on white prints like I used, and white "grout" rather than royal blue.
And a blue and red brick quilt (below) with zero grout
Not only that, but both quilts use vertical rows instead of the horizontal rows I'm doing. lol
Neither quilt looks like mine, but I know someone did a lot of work on both quilts!
Also, the postage stamps in the middle of this quilt (below) have the same number my 20" square has--256 fabric print "stamps," but all her lights (below, center of the quilt) are the same color. Mine is a charm postage stamp. "Charm" in front of a quilt name means that no two squares are alike.
^^^^I love this lady's quilt^^^^It just sings hallelujah^^^^
Her center small squares are 2 inches finished. Mine are postage stamp size, much smaller. She still has the 256 squares though, even with half the work already figured out due to using white strips to do all that with and cross cut when done. I have my little short cuts too, but putting thousands of squares into those 2 humongous clear heavy-duty plastic sacks took a few months of work over a 15-year span of working intensely for a week here and there doing all the cutting. I've gone through at least 15 cutting mats and who knows how many rotary blades in the process. People think I work around the clock. They have no idea... <giggle>
Now, it's time to take a long winter's nap. I'm saying a little prayer for every one of you.
Oh, and my little stack of quilts now has 5 quilts on it to hopefully have 10 by the third Tuesday for the Charity Bees. It's been fun.
Keeping fingers crossed for you and Mr. G!
