At last ... someting to post about

 

Old Lesson Learned ... Organizing my scrappy triangles.  I had all these lovely small  60 degree triangles made up into larger 60 degree triangles, each one more attractive than the previous but no matter how I arranged them, grouped them, turned them, NOTHING looked right..they just didn't "DO".  Finally I realized they still had no  STRUCTURE or ORDER, until I put that sashing in there.  Suddenly they looked good - immediately.  Some of our scrappy quilts end up ... blah ... and I am guessing they need order, or structure.  I'm hearing someone saying ... "the dynamics of the setting " .  My piecing was good with all these bias edges, but that didn't matter - the design needed STRUCTURE.  

Kindnesses, and another kid quilt

Firstly, a HUGE Thank you to Candace of https://wraggedypatches.blogspot.com/ for her friendship and a beautiful gift that arrived today.  She is a very gifted sewist as well as quilter and I am deeply grateful for her kindness.  

Today, I finished this little girl quilt.  I was inspired by a YouTube video from Krista Moser.  I've been quilting many years but sometimes SOMETHING strikes your fancy, and her projects did just that.  She's bright and fresh, and presents an excellent and well-presented video.  The projects that I lean toward lately, are 60 degree wedges and voila, that's what she's doing in amazing new colorways.  

My first idea was getting waaaaay too large, like I frequently do, but this time I stopped and took out 2 triangles of strips and 2 plain whites in each row  - MUCH better.  

Below is the "getting too large" version  Seems like the white has taken over.  While I dreaded removing and unsewing, I almost have enough left for a second quilt.  Both these quilts were sewn in rows across, not diagonally.  No problem at all.  Seams of the block-to-block were pressed open.