Three in the Que for Sashing

Linda Brannock's Flowers blocks are high on my list to receive sashing.  These are photos of the blocks collaged onto a background similar to what I hope to use.  Unfortunately, the photos were not all taken in the same light so their colors are not true to life.

The sashing will be multi-colored half-triangle squares with a near-constant color (fabrics below) for part of each square and a variety of fabrics and colors for the other half of the squares.  I think a variety of fabrics will be more interesting than only one fabric but I may change my mind after I start cutting, sewing, and auditioning.

The sashing squares may become leaders/enders for one of the other quilts below.


Another quilt awaiting sashing is The Blue and the Gray from the book, The Blue and the Gray:  Quilt Patters using Civil War Fabrics by Mary Etherington and Connie Tesene.  I doubled the sizes of the blocks.

The 9-patch blocks will finish at 9½" square and the red cross corner stones will finish at 4½".  It's taken a while to collect a variety of grey fabrics for the sashing.  Each piece will be cut at 4½" x 9½".   I don't think any of my fabrics qualify as true Civil War reproductions but who will know that was the intent of the quilt if I don't tell them?


And last for sashing is Cheri Payne's Everyday Patchwork.  These 6" blocks (or 8" with the borders) will be sashed with scrappy black fabrics.  It will get a wide border with applique.

I find I'm hungry for color after working on Little Rubies with its limited palette of red and brown for 5 weeks.  Thinking about working on the quilts above encourages me to continue and, perhaps, work faster to finish Rubies.  I tell myself I'm almost there, with only two large 4-patch blocks to cut and sew, 14 more 3½" squares to cut and sew, 5 6½" x 12½" rectangles to cut, about 27 blocks requiring 4 seams, and sewing the rows together.  I'm eager to get these pieces into a top so I can layer, baste, and begin quilting it.  Soon, soon....

I have to say it's been really hard not to start another quilt, especially for several of the quilt-alongs going on around the internet.  Last Thursday evening I went to bed with a great idea and the decision to begin.  When I awoke the next morning, the idea was completely gone, with not a shred of a memory of the idea.  I took that as a sign I should not start a new quilt now.  Haha.

I took this photo the other morning as I travelled a rural road on my way to I can't remember where.  It was a quick phone snapshot just so I can remember the beauty of a snowy woodland. 

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--Nancy.
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