And I got alllllllll the 2 1/2" segments of the strips cut for the four patches on the new quilt top, and sewed up most of them before running out of steam. (I still have a stack of them, pinned, sitting on my sewing machine but I think I'm done sewing for today. Sometimes I just kind of hit a wall on a project and have to stop for a while).
Here are some of the patches, to give you an idea of the range of colors:
Several (Four, maybe?) of the fabrics in there are Mary Engelbreit prints (the little circle-flower ones). And there are three of the "Dimples" line, and then a couple others that matched and worked with these but were one-offs or were from different fabric collections.
The light colored "plain" fabric has tiny starbursts on it, you can't really see them in the photo.
The four-patches then get put in a set with alternating big squares of the colorful fabric and they are turned so that the light colored background fabric forms sort of a diamond design.
This is a nice quilt pattern (it's from a book I have called "Bundles of Fun" which has many patterns designed for fat quarters, most of them pretty straightforward so you don't have to spend hours and hours cutting, or do lots of agonizing over matching points and such.
I could see making this quilt again, in different colors - maybe the late-1800s reproduction prints, with dark prints (the red and green and brown background ones) as the colorful fabrics, and "shirting" prints (light background with small designs, often geometric, in either navy blue, black, dark red, or dark green). Or doing it of 30s fabrics with that "30s green" in a solid color as the background fabric. Or Christmas fabrics with either a solid red or gold or green as the background. It seems like a really versatile pattern and although there are an awful lot of four-patches to sew together, it goes comparatively fast.
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I like it. It's bright and cheerful.
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