Edna's Magnum Opus

 Remember Edna and her amazing stash? This quilt is made up of the tiniest pieces of fabric, many of the patterns I have used! I backed it with some perfectly good but slightly faded 1990s blue fabric from the thrift store. This wasn't well ironed, but I thought the blocks were a uniform size... until they weren't. I picked out more quilting stitches from this one until I realized that there were times when Edna just went completely off the rails and there was just no consistency to guide my stitches. We have an art teacher who will enjoy this as a lap quilt. It didn't feel good enough to go to a baby. 

 

Improved Nine Patch

  This is an improved nine patch, the pattern to which I can no longer find. It involved cutting up a standard nine patch block and sewing it back together. I really like the pattern so will look for it. 

The flowered fabric was some that my daughter found at the thrift store, but it is a polyester blend. This is the very last blended fabric I plan on using, as I have had to repair some thirty year old quilts in which similar fabric did not wear well. 

This is for a math teacher who is expecting; I never know how the young will feel about quilts, so it this shows up at the thrift store some day, I won't be surprised. Or hurt. 

Streak of Lightning- Brown

I apparently like this pattern quite a bit. The brown squares are leftover from when I cut too many for my grandson's quilt. The being actually has tiny maps on it. 

The back is a rather large brown and maroon print with pine cones that is from... 1995. It was perfect for this project, so must have been why I bought two yards of it. 

This is going to one of our language arts teachers who has a new grandson.