This is one of the least inspiring quilts I have ever made.

In my way of rating my own quilts, I’m giving it a 2/10— maybe even a 2+ because I did do a decent job of both the piecing and quilting. It is the design that has issues.

I didn’t use NEARLY strong enough greens for the 9 patches to show up. It is true, that this is what I had. Anyway, I should have used whites in the background and not blues.

I’m sorry.

I’ve not wanted to show this one to you.

I quilted it with straight lines hoping that the straight lines would emphasize the fact that there are actually 9 patches there since many of them almost disappeared into the background.

I used my Janome to quilt this one with, what you can see are straight lines. I had sandwiched it before heading to the states in late February but it just stayed in my sewing room while I was gone. I’m not ready to attempt ruler quilting with the long arm.

I’ve done much better.

Anyway, while this is part of my Upcycled Greens series, it is mostly blue. The green part is where I used greens for the 9 patches. The problem, naturally, is that the colors simply weren’t dark enough to stand out against the light blue background.

I used a scrappy binding, as I’ve done with the vast majority of these quilts in the upcycled greens series.

I also used a backing made up of second hand fabric - it was a “just large enough” sheet.

This is number 30 in my Upcycled Greens series. I have not written up a pattern because I don’t want this one on the front of a pattern. :) Maybe the next one I will. This one is on point with the background pieces being pieced with 3.5” squares.

The little 9 patches started out a 3.5”. Here are the blocks - to the right.

The alternate blocks are pieced blocks — from various small 3.5” pieces of mostly upcycled blue shirts.

Here’s the quilt roll:

So here is my Upcycled Greens series so far. There are 36 quilts in it.

I’m sure that many are here that you like and possibly a fair few that don’t appeal to you. That’s pretty much how I am with this series. However, I have finished most of these to date - but haven’t shown them all to you.

Thank you so much for coming along with me on this journey.

Have a great day wherever you are reading this.

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