"Radio Waves" - newest upcycled top

I've decided I need to get busy with making at least a couple, tops/quilts from my recycleds.  It is a real need. I just need to whittle down my recycled fabrics into a more manageable amount.

I have no desire to throw away boxes of taken apart shirts/blouses, etc, so my only other alternative is just to “get busy” using them.

So, I’m going to try for a few simple ones – hopefully simple, but nice.

We’ll see what I can challenge myself to do.

As opposed to my 2” strips series, I’m thinking of calling this series my “Easy Block” series – focusing on using a plain block or minimally altered plain block– allowing it to be the center focal point of the quilt – without cutting it into tiny pieces. 

"Show Off" - number one in my Easy Block series

I found that people really liked “Show Off” (it is number 1 in the series) and it was incredibly simple. In fact, it’s so simple, that I couldn’t believe that I got so many “likes” when I posted it in big Facebook group. I’m sure that a big part of it is the color choices I used -  I like those burgundies and other warm colors that went into making that one.

So, this year, I thought it’s time to make at least one if not two more in this “Easy Block” series.

In keeping with Show Off, I decided to go ahead and leave the center block rather large. These are 7.5”7.5” cut. I then tried to make the quilt interesting with the sashing.

And so it is. I've named this one Radio Waves.

Radio Waves - number 2 in my series of Easy Block quilts.

The top is finished. I only made this one 89"x89" - so a tad bit smaller than I normally make them.  I've had to get back in to the routine of making tops, so this just ended up being one block smaller each direction than I probably should have.  But variety is the spice of life, they say. I think it's okay that this one is a tad bit smaller. And if it isn't, I can add to it to make it an 8x8 layout. I'll think about it while I work on a couple other projects this week.

It's quite easy, but kind of cool looking. I couldn't decide if it looked like radio waves or or some sort of robot, but ended up deciding that radio waves was fine.

The pattern is here. I hope some of you can use it!

And now you know at least one of the things that has been going on over at my house the last few days!

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Happy quilting!  I trust today finds all well at your house!

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