I am now working in my head, anyway, about 2 or 3 of these tops ahead of where I actually am. That is helpful because last year when I started on these UP greens, I was a little short on ideas. I guess it just wasn’t the right timing.

However, getting the fabrics out and actually looking at them, folding them and handling them has helped give me some ideas on how to use them.

While I don’t mind if you see one of these upcycled quilts and say, “I know that was from upcycled clothing,” I am especially happy when people don’t realize they are. I feel like at that point that I’ve reached my goal - making quilts out of what is available without it screaming the source of the fabrics.

Anyway, it was recently Valentine’s Day and as I looked through Facebook at a couple of other people’s heart quilts, I saw something made out of these hearts - 4 together - well, they were a bit different - but obviously with pink/red.

But I didn’t see hearts.

I guess I had green on my mind, because I saw a 4 leaf clover. Right off the bat! sorta, anyway! I mean, I could have made the inner sashings thinner to make it more realistic, but I wanted the space between the sections, so I left it like I did.

The center of this medallion top is made up of the heart blocks and then a border round. Then I made a 4 patch chain block and another border of light green. At that point, it actually would make a fine lap quilt size.

I then added more borders. First a stop border - a darker fabric - a greenish gold piece I have and then some some green - tone on tone fabric. Then white. Then I began my stash buster border - all 2” squares - strip pieced, of course.

I really like to aim for queen size with these quilts. Why? Well, I find queen is the actual size that fits most adult people’s beds that I know.

Plus it uses up fabric a little faster. I just like them.

I decided to start using up some of those misc. cutoffs and pieces I’d already collected. I’m chopping some of them into 1.5” strips for my green Checkered quilt top, but wanted to more or less clean up some of the scraps shown on the floor above by cutting into 2” strips and using them on the border.

So I did. Big time.

I made 7x strips - lots of them!

And so here is the whole thing:

I’m happy with it. I like it at each stage of completion - it would be a nice quilt at any point.

In order to make it “not square” I added 2 extra rows of the blocks to the top and 2 to the bottom, making it 6” longer than it is wide.

Hope you like it! It’s simple as are most of my quilts If you see hearts and not clover, that’s fine as well! Would be great in pinks and reds!

I do not have the pattern finished yet - will work on it soon.

(Oh…I don’t actually believe in “luck” as is commonly defined - but a Four Leaf Clover is often thought of us as “lucky”. I figured you probably know that already though. I believe there is a God who isn’t surprised by what happens to us.)

I’m off to work on my next one - and yes, clean up that pile of greens. Need to get them into boxes and see how much I have left.

This one makes #9 - though #8 is in the process. Number 10 is in my sewing room at the moment. I thought maybe 15 quilts would do it for this project…but maybe I’ll up that to 20. My sis is guessing 30. That makes me feel tired! I’ll tackle them one or two at a time (pretty much two quilts at a time currently since #8 is being cut out as I cut other pieces).

Here’s the summary of the series at a glance:

Have a great day wherever you are reading this! Stay safe!

Be sure to check out what my sis has for you in the store here!

Here’s one of the beauties we have!