A pile of food we are preparing to send into Ukraine - sugar, flour, oatmeal, rice, etc.

I managed to sneak this one to a finish before we company arrived (for 10 days or so). While company is here I can’t really work at the table and use it like I can when I’m alone. I just make too much of a mess. I can sew in my sewing room, though. I brought plenty upstairs to work on - if there is time. We’ll see what happens.

But, here is this one!

If I would wash it again and let it lie flat to dry, it would be better. What happened is that I did wash it, and let it hang dry, but failed to get pictures that day. Then I let it drape over a lot of “stuff” in my living room and it got out of shape. I don’t have time right now to rewash it and let it dry again. Just not that concerned about it. :) (One of those first world problems that just doesn’t seem all that important in light of other things going on around us.)

This is number 20 in the Upcycled Greens series of quilts.

I had worked with the navy in number 18 and still had quite a bit left, so I decided to just go simple and make these navy/green of any shade checkerboard blocks using 2.5” squares. For the most part, however, I believe I strip pieced as it was so much easier. I also had some 2.5” cut strips at this point from those greens. But I think I also did some with simple piecing as I also had squares randomly cut here and there of the greens.

I decided to make the sashing and cornerstones the way I did using all scrappy pieces - and not trying to keep it the same because I had so many little 1.5” strips. I was fascinated with how the little + in the cornerstones looked from differing fabrics. Sometimes the whole design shows up better than others. I did use a very pale green as the background. Actually, I used several pale greens - some more green than others which look a little bit more like simply cream.

Here’s the backing - I’m very much needing to piece many pieces together in order to get the size I need for these quilts.

The fabric is very soft - and because of the way it didn’t want to be very flat, I decided to quilt it to death. That’s really the advantage of poly batting and close quilting. I’m sure you can do the same with a long arm - but the poly batting esp. seems to swallow up the unevenness. You do end up with texture, and that is totally fine with me.

This is not one of my larger quilts - barely coming in at a smallish queen for width. It’s only about 87” - and I really prefer my queens to be closer to 90” - and I read somewhere that 86” is the smallest queen. However, I think it’s like a lot of things - call it something, and who dares to differ? I’m calling it a queen size.

I really need to get out of the rut of this quilting. I think I want to try some more floral motifs now. Maybe change these swirls into adding a floral around them. Maybe I’ll try that next.