Originally Posted by Phyllis Carol
Happy 2011 everyone. May it be a happy quilting year for each of you. You have certainly added to my quilting life in a terrific way during the past year. I have a couple of thousand cut 2 1/2" squares left over from previous projects. How can I best use them (some of them) in a new quilt top? What patterns would you suggest? I do only hand piecing and quilting, if that makes any difference for your suggestions. thanks in advance for your in-put.
The suggestions on what block patterns to use are terrific. I just wanted to step in here and congratulate you on hand piecing and quilting - I was beginning to wonder if there were any hand piecers left.
I love hand work and will be doing a hand piecing program tomorrow at one of my guilds. Yes, they will be participating (I can already hear the grumbles!!). This is where I started in 1979 when I joined the quilting community - everything was by hand in the "dinosaur" days (lol). And hand work is much more sociable than machine work - hard to talk when your running that machine and watching out for fingers, 1/4" seams, etc. I do machine piece now although not as well as some - machine quilting is still eluding me and my hand quilting is pretty rusty.
So thank you for continuing the tradition in this day of hurry up and get it done.
Sandy in Mooresville, NC