Hello & Goodbye

 to a couple of quilts.

I have been somewhat absent lately preoccupied with various short term health issues, mostly tests proving nothing much wrong!

Now we are having a lovely lazy time staying with my son in London.  This was a chance to dispose of a couple of lockdown quilts to a Guild member nearby who is supplying quilts to Afghan refugees. These were too big and/or unsuitable for young person quilts.

I photographed them on my son's bed before they went to their new homes:

Roman Crosses

Lockdown Logs

Lockdown Logs reflected

I have had lots of sitting and sewing time here partly watching Wimbledon matches and in the evening watching later episodes of Curb Your Enthusiasm not available on our home set up. These always leave me delirious with laughter. So I have finished the binding and label on Appley Dapply.

Appley Dapply on our bed here: "Appley Dapply was a little brown mouse/ who went to the cupboard in somebody's house" (Beatrix Potter).

Pieced back of Appley Dapply

Now two more remain for binding but my shoulder is twinging after this one so I'll give it time to recover before sewing down the next one.

Now off to buy a paper as there is lots of news on the political front.

Turbulent times. What next!!

What next?

Roman Crosses

More of the same: I'm using the remaining fabric from Lockdown logs. I cut 2.5" strips, joined 5 together to make a 10.5" (unfinished size) strip set. I then cut four 10.5" squares and sliced these diagonally in the same direction. I rearranged the resultant triangles into blocks which measure 14" unfinished.
They are quick and easy to make and here's how:

Sew five WOF 2.5" strips; your strip
should measure 10.5" by at least 42".

Cut into four identical 10.5"strip squares.

Cut across diagonally in the same direction. You need four triangles to make a block.

Arrange the triangles with the bias on the
outer edge. The central crosses are from
the same fabric. You need four identical
squares for this arrangement.

You need just two identical squares for
this arrangement with different cross
fabrics

Completed blocks