Rail Fence (mom's) UFO update.
Laundered the backing fabrics. Laundered & pressed the border fabrics.
Switched gears. Have a new add-a-granddaughter, age 6. Was with DD/SIL/the bitties last week in July. Asked new DGD what color she wanted her doll quilt. She said, blue, green, purple, pink, and black. I was all like d'oh! NOT my usual color range AT ALL. Thought on it, and came up with an Amish style. bought solid black, bought batiks in her chosen colors. made it pinwheels & checkerboards. 3 diagonal purple pinwheels, green in the other two corners, and pink & blue in the center sides. Flanked by (from the inside out) single rows of green, then pink, then purple, then blue 1" checkerboard, then a 3" black border. The back is a varigated batik that pulls it all together. Bound in black. I shadow quilted the pinwheels (I recommend NOT doing this, you get a little point in the middle.), then did a diagonal grid quilting on the checkers & borders. Got that finished & delivered.
Then, theres a wedding tomorrow, making 4 placemats & 4 napkins. The placemats are just HSTs laid out in Broken Dishes pattern (ha ha ha) only 6x4 instead of 4x4. Interesting layout. Depending on how you look at it, you see pinwheels or hourglasses. two of the placemats are flimsies, two are in grid layout, sewn but not cut apart stage. The napkins are cut out, and the hems pressed, but not sewn.
Baby shower 10/25 have a flimsy for that.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch...I will return to the rail fence after
those projects.
