Finished Comfort Quilt

      One day at a local fabric store I was browsing the clearance fabric which I did not need and I found some adorable duck fabric. It felt like good quality and was a really great price so I bought several years. Then I had to plan a quilt project to use it.  I used the duck fabric for the border.  I found the drawing of the little duck and designed the quilt in EQ. The ducks are fusible and machine applique. Today I finished it.

Alternate Blocks

    I feel like I've been spinning my wheels and not accomplishing much.  I went to charity sew for guild this morning.  This afternoon I pieced large 4 color quarter-square triangle blocks for alternate blocks with the applique animals on the plaid.  Here they are on my new design wall. It will get a border later. 

 

     I also worked on blocks for another charity project trying to finish up a project that other people abandoned while I need to finish my own projects.  Sometimes I just get to a place where I don't know what needs to be next so I have to take a break and work on something else.  That is probably why I have several UFOs.

Brown Crumb Got a Border

  Yesterday I cut brown scraps into 2 ½” strips and today the brown crumb quilt got a scrappy border.  It is amazing that I still have brown scraps after making this top and I even created 4 small crumb blocks as I sewed the mitered border. 

 

   I have almost finished 10 appliqué animal blocks.  Now to decide what the alternate blocks will be.  I will play with some options in EQ to see what will go with the plaid used for the animal block background.  Easiest would be 9 patches of mixed colors but I would rather do something more interesting.