Sew Me Up!

 

I've started to sew the Little Brother quilt together. It goes pretty quick.

Here is a detail so you can see some of the fabrics. The eggs are from the leftover backing of the Flight of Fancy quilt and the grey with the butterfly is from the leftover backing of the Partly Sunny quilt.

These are the extra yellows that DID NOT make it into the quilt. Pretty sure a Yellow Macnas quilt is in the not-too-distant future.

Owlfan wanted to know what I will do with the blocks that did not make the cut. Good question.

Normally I throw them in a box marked "Leftovers" for scavenging later. Sometimes I "harvest" fabric by unstitching it from its partner and using it again. Sometimes I use extra blocks in the backing of a quilt. I don't generally get all worked up about them. To me they are often simply "the cost of doing business."

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OH! I have a funny story. My buddy Julie and I frequently exchange calendars we make of our quilts. She wrote to me asking me if I needed a calendar for 2026, then later I discovered she was planning a calendar of all her Macnas quilts for 2027...

"WAIT," I texted, "You are planning a 2027 calendar ALREADY????"

"Guilty as charged," she texted back. "...LOL, go ahead and laugh."

"In the great scheme of all that is Julie," I wrote back to her, "I have to say I am not surprised." 

(Julie always impresses me with her organization and planning. She actually has a list of quilts she PLANS to make and WHEN she is going to make them. Me, I normally have no freaking clue what I am going to do next much less when I am going to do it.)