I finished the "Elsie's Kitchen" (that's the name of the fabric line, from the selvedge of the fabric I'm using for the backing) little quilt. The pattern is one called "Three-Six-Nine;" it's one of those patterns that you can buy singly from quilt-shops (not a pattern that's in a book).



It's actually kind of a challenge to lay out with so few fabrics to try to keep the fabrics from clumping up and to distribute the colors evenly.

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I also put the binding on this quilt:



I used one of the prints (a geranium-leaf print; I think it was one of Kaffe Fassett's) but in a different colorway than in the quilt for the binding.

The quilt is bigger than I remembered; it's nearly twin-bed sized.



Here's just a random corner, so you can see some of the prints in more detail. I had it quilted in a loose meander that is admittedly a bit looser than I think is ideal, but whatever. I chose the pattern so I guess I wasn't paying attention to how open it was; some of the big squares have little to no quilting in them. (It's quilted with a multicolor in shades of raspberry pink so it pretty much blends with the quilt).


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Another just sort of odd ball little thing, but it makes me happy: I know the names of some of my ancestors (at least those on my dad's side). One of them, W. E. Huttmann, was a scientific-instrument maker and supposedly had some patents assigned to him. I searched the U.S. Patent office (though Huttmann was born in Germany, he did most of his work here) but found nothing.

Then I thought to search on his name. There are some sites apparently related to his Civil War service (one of which Google warns may contain malware, so I didn't click on it), but then there's this. From an old book of patents. I'm QUITE sure it's my ancestor; he was working with a J. Erpelding and his wife's maiden name was Erpelding (but her first name didn't begin with J., so I assume it was a brother).

Kind of a neat thing. Apparently he was also one of the early manufacturers of made-to-order telephones. Genealogy is interesting. I don't know nearly as much about my mother's side of the family as there were a couple of people a few generations back who were orphans, so the thread kind of got lost, but a distant cousin who did some work on the family tree claims we are not-all-that-distantly related to the Churchills. (Yes, those Churchills).