Lots of Little Four Patches

As the new year began I didn't really have much traction with a particular project - not that there isn't always a WIP that can be picked up and worked on - but none of them really spoke to me. I just wanted to sew without having to do a lot of thinking, or math. So I picked up my Scraptacular box and continued making tiny square-in-a-square blocks with four patch centres.

Trimmed to 2.5" square, they finish up at 2" and cute as a button!

I'd made tons of the four patches in the fall and once I used up all of the corners for the square-in-a-square bits I did a bit more selective cutting, falling back on prints that I really wanted to see in this quilt.

Some of the centres have matching dark squares and some are mis-matched, like in the photo above.

I'd stitch about a dozen at a time, sometimes more, and then bring them upstairs with me to press and trim when I had a few minutes. It's amazing how quickly they added up.

One day I overdid it with the trimming and sprained my hand so I was out of commission for about a week. Actually, it wasn't the trimming that did it, it was the fact that I was using a ruler that was too small for the task (and probably a blade that was a tad on the dull side) which meant that I was really having to apply pressure to ensure that the piece didn't shift under the ruler. Once I figured that out I was off to the races again.

There's over 450 little blocks in the box now so it's time to start stringing them together in threes with a few setting triangles added in for good measure. Which means that it's decision time on what the setting triangles will be cut from. I've got a few options, just need to make the final choice....M