The Closer

One of our quilters at the church - Jan - is in the process of moving to southern Ontario in the coming weeks so she has been doing a major purge of her sewing room in order that she's not paying to move fabrics and WIPs that she no longer loves/needs. As a result, our quilters have been one of the benefactors of lots of goodies. 

After sorting several bags into colour groups, I brought home four, maybe five, projects to get to the finish line for Quilts for Survivors. I feel like a closing pitcher in a baseball game put in for the win 😊.

This cowboy-themed flimsy seemed like a good place to start. It's an interesting, fairly straight forward design with six oversized batik Cathedral Window pieces added throughout, which I haven't seen before.

It's not quite large enough so the question was how to make it larger without any of the original fabrics. I had also brought a piece of light grey home so I'm wondering about inserting a border of it.

And, there is this pile of 8 or 9 surplus blocks. After a little noodling I decided to take them apart (a job easily finished while watching TV one evening) and then playing with the 2.5" x 10" strips to see what I might create in terms of another border. Time to play on the design wall for a bit....M