A Couple of Project Updates

I thought the progress on these two quilts deserve their own update!

Cute Little Granny Squares:

I am up to 70something little granny squares.

I want to make a 13x14 layout so that is 182 blocks I need for this. Sadly this means I am not even half done, but that’s okay.

I really do enjoy making these blocks!

Here are some photos of that project in process.

These little blocks are trimmed to 6 1/2”. I will put a 1” finished sashing between the blocks.

 
 

I am putting this in my Lori Holt folder even though I’ve made other granny square quilts before. However, I’m making this one because I was inspired by a photo I saw of one of her quilts - not because I’m following her instructions or need her to tell me how to make a granny square block. :) It’s a pretty standard block that I’ve made multitudes of times before - just not usually this small. My first ever (granny square quilt) one was back in 2013 and it looked like this: I started making crocheted granny squares when I was about 12 and learned to crochet.


I am using the Lori Holt fabrics I have and/or fabrics that seem to go with them. Not all are official fabrics by Riley Blake. Some are just from my stash.

Anyway….it’s coming along nicely and I like making these small blocks.





Quilty Fun:

Then, I decided I needed to make progreas on my Quilty Fun quilt which I did want to make. I probably will not make that gingham border - as I just don’t really care for the green gingham as the border. I may leave it green - or may not. Depends on what I have when I get that far.

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I had put away the pieces I’d already made and somehow in my head I had already made up the rows of the blocks I had made. However, I remembered wrong.

I just made the blocks - so I still need to make up the rows for the stars and the apples and the houses.

But I have these three rows made.

These rows are only 50.5” long, so since my average quilt finishes at about 90”x100”, they are much smaller than I often make. So there’s that!

The cups were much easier to make than I expected them to be.

One thing that makes some of this a little faster is that I have some 2.5” squares already cut and in a baggie of these fabrics - that sort of coordinate. I can just pull from them and did for the one row I just made.


So there you are - these are a few of the smaller things I’ve been working on which take a while because first of all the blocks of the granny squares are so small and the second - the blocks are all different. Most of the quilts I make of my own projects are things I can do more in an assembly line process.

Anyway, thanks so much for coming along with me on this journey!

Have a great day wherever you are reading this!

Becky Petersen2 Comments